How to improve our city's quality - Book Report/Review Example

A report by Great Britain (2009) indicates that schools can derive a number of benefits from a good school transport system in that this ensures that congestion, both on the major roads and at the school gates is at the minimal level. As many parents decide to use the school transport system like the school bus, this scenario alleviates many parents of the ‘school run’ business hence enabling them to run their errands besides reducing on the emission levels. It is no doubt that most of the traffic congestions experienced in major cities are because of school run where every parent prefers to individually, take their children to school.

However, the report suggests that the use of school bus reduces traffic congestions and subsequently, many potential traffic accidents due to the pooling of transport systems (Great Britain, 2009). Aside from the congestion and accidents story, the report by Great Britain (2009) confirms that the avoidance of school run by a centralized transport system enables children to stay healthy by exercising through walking thus avoiding several common diseases that manifest through inactivity. When school-going children in a particular city stay healthy throughout, the overall health and quality of life within the city improves, as children are the ones commonly affected by contagious ailments.

Other benefits enjoyed by school bus services are that the school going children are able to advance their social responsibility skills and learn the art of making choices. According to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [OECD] (2007), managing the traffic in the urban areas is a serious issue that need deserves consideration as a complex project that needs thorough analysis. Policy makers ought to understand fully the real causes of traffic congestion in major cities, to the extent of grouping them into two key groups (OECD, 2007).

These two groups are recurrent and non-recurrent traffic congestions