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  title info:
    title: Qatar's school transportation system
    sub title: supporting safety, efficiency, and service quality
  name:
    name part: Henry, Keith
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Rand-Qatar Policy Institute
  name:
    name part: Qatar
    name part: Dīwān al-Amīrī.
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxi, 132 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
  abstract: In consideration of the many challenges associated with Qatar's continued growth and demographic changes, the government of Qatar is interested in updating its school transportation system (STS). This volume assesses the perspectives of parents and school administrators on Qatar's STS, identifies a vision and goals for the STS, reviews international norms for school transportation, and discusses strategies to achieve the vision and better align Qatar's STS with international norms. The authors articulate four elements of a vision for Qatar's STS: Provide safe, efficient, and high-quality transportation for Qatar's students; support educational options by enabling mobility and access; provide a transportation experience that is supportive of Qatari values and culture; and minimize the impact on traffic congestion and the environment. The authors recommend 13 strategies to help achieve this vision, such as establishing clearly marked schools zones with standardized safety features and establishing standards for licensing and training bus drivers. The authors also provide a preliminary evaluation of several other strategies with less certain costs and benefits, such as changing the composition of the school bus fleet, implementing bus stops, and staggering school start times.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Key Observations About School Bus Transportation and the Perceptions of Parents and Administrators -- Vision and Goals for Qatar's School Transportation System -- Candidate Strategies for Qatar's School Transportation System -- Evaluation of Select Strategies -- Recommendations and Concluding Observations -- Appendix A: Parent Survey: Supplemental Information -- Appendix B: Overview of School Transportation in Other Gulf Cooperation Council Countries -- Appendix C: Bus Routing Model -- Appendix D: Documentary Support for Strategies.
  note: Keith Henry, Obaid Younossi, Maryah Al-Dafa, Shelly Culbertson, Michael G. Mattock, Thomas Light, Charlene Rohr ; with Sarah Al-Dorani, Hamad Al-Ibrahim, Mashail Al-Naimi, Louay Constant, Mohammed Makki, Georgette Mansour, Joy S. Moini, Parisa Roshan, Paul Soremsen, Flavia Tsang ; prepared for the Qatar Amiri Diwan.
  note: "Rand-Qatar Policy Institute."
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-132).
  subject:
    geographic code: a-qa---
  subject:
    topic: School children
    topic: Transportation
    geographic: Qatar
  subject:
    topic: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
    topic: Civil
    topic: Highway & Traffic
  subject:
    topic: School children
    topic: Transportation
  subject:
    geographic: Qatar
  classification: LB2864 .H46 2012
  classification: 371.8/72095363
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Qatar's school transportation system
    origin info:
      publisher: Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, ©2012
    identifier: (DLC) 2012003379
    identifier: (OCoLC)775416550
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    title info:
      title: Rand Corporation monograph series
  identifier: 9780833077455 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 0833077457 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9780833060424 (Online)
  identifier: 9780833060242
  identifier: 0833060244
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  record info:
    record content source: COD
    record creation date: 120404
    record change date: 20260728172522.4
    record identifier: in00003909240
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng