Child Safety Protection System for use with Busses

Background

For a high number of students and school children nationwide, the school day begins and ends with a trip on the bus. Unfortunately, each year many children are injured and several are killed in bus incidents. In fact, a child is three times more likely to be killed while boarding or getting off the bus than while the vehicle is moving.
In order to prevent these accidents different national safety councils encourage parents to teach their children some important rules for getting on and off the school bus. Furthermore, the government and city councils have upgraded a high number of difference roadside bus stops close to school areas, built bus shelters, covered walkways and roads improvements to increase bus safety.

Despite the above, and as recent tragedies prove, injuries and deaths still occur.

Project Aim

The aim of the project is to assist with the development of a child and general protection system for use on the busses to prevent accidents when children are getting on/off or are in the vicinity off the bus. The approach should be ‘inclusive’ in principle considering protecting the elderly, the infirmed, and those with impaired vision or hearing, whilst also helping the distracted pedestrian.