In 2001 the Queensland government established a School Transport Safety Task Force (the Task Force) and an Interdepartmental Working Group to investigate issues relating to school transport safety, and report back with recommendations. The Task Force developed a package of initiatives to comprehensively address and improve the safety of travel to and from school. This paper discusses the background to the investigation and processes for development of the initiatives. It will go on to outline the individual initiatives, their implementation status and results of any trial or policy adoption. This is possibly one of the most comprehensive and integrated approaches to school transport safety yet undertaken in Australia. Queensland Transport will evaluate the implementation of the package of measures in an effort to identify best practice, and provide evaluation reports to enable other jurisdictions to follow progress. (Author/publisher) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E209619. This paper may also be accessed by Internet users at: http://www.rsconference.com/index.html
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