Transportation/trucking/railroad - Albany, New York, United States
Student Transportation Aligned for Return To School, or STARTS Task Force. STARTS is a collaboration among the National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation (NASDPTS), the National Association of Pupil Transportation (NAPT), and the National School Transportation Association (NSTA) to research, review, and report on matters relating to COVID-19 and student transportation.The task force is divided up into three subcommittees: Health and Safety (Students and Employees); Communications, Advocacy, and Public Relations; and Scheduling, Routing, and School Buses. The overall objective of the task force is to develop specific recommendations and to encourage transportation professionals, at all levels, to insert themselves into the state and local working groups that are already considering, or about to consider, return to school proposals.