What is it about?
Children transportation to school by bus is analysed by looking at barriers the block service quality delivery in Ghana. Students' views were sourced on bus mobility attributes because they are regulars users of the bus.
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Why is it important?
The paper addresses one of the gaps in the transportation literature by exploring determinants influencing the delivery of quality bus services on students in Sunyani Municipality’s primary and junior high (middle) schools which typified the largest school catchment areas at the regional level.
Perspectives
The study outcomes could help in schools’ commute safety policy either by fashioning novel regulations to guide operations of school buses in the city or through fortifying the current ones. Our recommendations based on outcomes and universal accepted procedures to schools’ leadership offer transportation providers and municipal authorities avenues to provide well-organised, potent, and safe transport services to students in private schools. Furthermore, the current study provides a comprehensive analysis of findings and draws objective conclusions for further studies on quality bus service deliveries in other sectors such as public schools. As effectual child’s school transport and safety of emerging cities in the Global South have received little attention in international research and policy.
Mr Stephen Agyeman
Sunyani Technical University
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This page is a summary of: Analysis of barriers to perceived service quality in Ghana: Students’ perspectives on bus mobility attributes, Transport Policy, December 2020, Elsevier, DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2020.08.015.
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Data on school transport by bus in the Sunyani Municipality of Ghana.
The data were obtained via a probability sampling technique. 403 students were selected in 20 schools out of 47 registered private schools (primary and Junior High schools in Sunyani Municipality) to explore obstacles to the delivery of quality bus service via interviewer-administered questionnaire with closed-ended questions.
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