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原文传递 Network Design Analysis for Special Needs Student Services.

题名：	Network Design Analysis for Special Needs Student Services.
作者：	S. Mason; E. A. Pohl;
关键词：	service needs,students,transportation infrastructure,special needs student services/population growth, children, public schools, buses, disabled persons, algorithms, geographical areas, performance evaluation, routing/population growth, children, public schools, buses, disabled persons, algorithms, geographical areas, performance evaluation, routing
摘要：	Population growth can lead to public school capacity issues, as well as increased school bus utilization. This increased utilization, in turn, can result in longer school bus transport times for both regular and special needs/medically fragile students. Special needs or medically fragile students are children with special health care needs who are at increased risk for a chronic physical, developmental, behavioral or emotional condition. These students require health and related services of a type or amount beyond that reqired by typical children. It is common practice to provide special needs students with specially equipped buses and/or special classroom environments with specific facilities or services. However, the assignment of student services to schools is regularly made without regard to bus transportation considerations for special needs students. Considering the potentially negative impact of long school bus rides on these students, we present the first systematic, integrated analyses of special needs student busing and classroom assignments. We provide models and algorithms for maintaining tranportation networks. The smarter networks produced by our models assign special needs services to school in concert with considering both student geographical location and service needs. In the future, we hope to pilot our model results in local school districts to assess the efficacy of our proposed methods in practice. / Title Note: Final rept. 01 Jul. 2009 - 30 Jun. 2010. / Supplementary Notes: Sponsored by Department of Transportation, Washington, DC. Research and Special Programs Administration. and Department of Transportation, Washington, DC. University Transportation Centers Program. / Availability Note: Order this product from NTIS by: phone at 1-800-553-NTIS (U.S. customers); (703)605-6000 (other countries); fax at (703)605-6900; and email at orders@ntis.gov. NTIS is located at 5301 Shawnee Road, Alexandria, VA, 22312, USA. / NTIS Prices: PC A04 / Corporate Author Code: 000952002 / Classifivation: Unclassified report
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