School bus

A school bus is a type of bus specifically designed and manufactured for student transport: carrying students to and from school and school events. In the United States, school buses provide an estimated 10 billion student trips every year, over half of the country's student population is transported by school bus. Each school day in 2013, nearly 468,000 school buses transported 28.8 million children to and from school and school-related activities;. School buses in North America are distinguished from other bus types by design characteristics necessitated by federal and state regulations. Federal safety standards in the United States and Canada require school buses to be painted school bus yellow and to be equipped with specific warning and safety devices.

Outside North America, the term can often be applied to an ordinary bus used for a school service or an older bus or coach retrofitted to become a dedicated school bus; the term "school bus" often is applied to bus routes assigned for the purposes of student transport as well.