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A riding school bus is a group of schoolchildren supervised by one or more adults, riding bicycles along a set route, picking children up at their homes along the way until they all arrive at school. Riding school buses are similar to Holy Rosary's new Pedal Pod – Bicycle Victoria
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A riding school bus is a group of schoolchildren supervised by one or more adults, riding bicycles along a set route, picking children up at their homes along the way until they all arrive at school. Riding school buses are similar to walking bus
A walking bus (crocodile, walking school bus) is a form of student transport for schoolchildren who, chaperoned typically by two adults (a "driver" leads and a "conductor" follows), walk to school along a set route, with some similarities to a ...
or bike bus
A bike bus, also known as a bike train or a cycle train, or cycle bus is a group of people who cycle together on a set route following a set timetable other than for sporting purposes. Cyclists may join or leave the bike bus at various points ...
programs. Like a traditional bus, riding school buses (also known as RSBs) have a fixed route with designated "bus stops" and "pick up times" in which they pick up children. Ideally the riding school bus will include at least 1 adult ‘driver’, who leads the group, and an adult ‘conductor' who supervises from the end of the group.
Riding school bus programs have been developed in a number of local councils in Victoria, Australia, including City of Moreland
The City of Merri-bek is a Local government areas of Victoria, local government area in metropolitan Melbourne, Australia. It comprises the inner northern suburbs between 4 and 11 kilometres from the Melbourne city centre, Melbourne CBD. The ...
and Shire of East Gippsland
The Shire of East Gippsland is a local government area in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, located in the eastern part of the state. It covers an area of and in June 2018 had a population of 46,818.
It includes the towns of Bairnsdale, Benambra ...
Riding school bus programs deliver a number of benefits:
*Improvement in child fitness and health
*Environmental benefits - reduction in car trips and associated air pollution
*Development of traffic skills and confidence in children
*Socialization and increased community engagement for children
*Reduction of traffic congestion around schools
Riding school buses are also known as pedal pods/ref> or Cycling School Buses
See also
*Autobus (cycling)
In road bicycle racing an autobus or grupetto is a group of cyclists who form a large group behind the leading peloton.
The autobus forms on mountain stages when non-climbers can't keep up and drop off the back of the peloton during the climb. ...
*Bike bus
A bike bus, also known as a bike train or a cycle train, or cycle bus is a group of people who cycle together on a set route following a set timetable other than for sporting purposes. Cyclists may join or leave the bike bus at various points ...
* Childhood obesity
*Lack of physical education
Lack of physical education is the inadequacy of the provision and effectiveness of exercise and physical activity within modern education.
When physical education fails to meet its goals of providing students with the knowledge base, life habits, ...
*Social influences on fitness behavior
Physical fitness is maintained by a range of physical activities. Physical activity is defined by the World Health Organization as "any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that requires energy expenditure." Human factors and social infl ...
*Walking bus
A walking bus (crocodile, walking school bus) is a form of student transport for schoolchildren who, chaperoned typically by two adults (a "driver" leads and a "conductor" follows), walk to school along a set route, with some similarities to a ...
References
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