For the new school year , localities have tightened regulations on school buses. In Ho Chi Minh City, the Department of Transportation has issued a document requesting the Department of Education and Training and schools using school buses to select service providers that are qualified to operate car transportation businesses according to regulations.
Drivers are required to fully meet the prescribed standards, have good moral character, communicate and behave civilly with students, staff, parents and strictly comply with traffic safety laws.
Direct schools using school buses in the area to organize training and education on knowledge, skills and legal regulations on traffic safety for staff and students.
In particular, pay attention to safety regulations when sitting in a car, escape skills in case of an accident, skills to handle dangerous situations when there is no one to help (how to open the door to get in and out of the car; honk the horn to attract the attention of people around, send out emergency signals with sound, light, symbols; use a hammer to break the glass to escape from the car...).
According to the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City, in the 2024-2025 school year, Ho Chi Minh City aims for 100% of educational institutions to build traffic safety education content integrated into subjects in the official curriculum to raise traffic awareness for students.
In the 2024-2025 school year, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council passed Resolution 13 regulating revenues and collection levels, and revenue and expenditure management mechanisms for services serving and supporting educational activities of public educational institutions.
There are regulations on the price of school bus services. Accordingly, for routes under 5km, the maximum fee is 10,000 VND/student/km for group 1 students and a maximum fee is 8,000 VND/student/km for routes over 5km for group 2 students.
Survey in Hanoi , the price of student transportation service for the 2024 - 2025 school year ranges from 1,300,000 VND to more than 2,000,000 VND/month.
Typically, Marie Curie Education System has a student shuttle service price of 1,500,000 VND/month for nearby pick-up points and 1,800,000 VND/month for far pick-up points.
Ban Mai Education System, round-trip student shuttle service at designated locations costs 1,365,000 VND/month, at requested locations costs 2,310,000 VND/month. Hanoi also has many requirements to tighten regulations on student shuttles.
According to the Law on Road Traffic Safety (ATGT) effective from January 1, 2025, Article 46 stipulates: Vehicles used for transporting preschool children and students must have equipment to record images of preschool children and students; must be equipped with equipment that can warn and prevent children from being left in the vehicle. The vehicle must have a usage period of no more than 20 years; and must have a paint color according to Government regulations.
When transporting preschool children and primary school students, there must be at least one manager on each vehicle to guide, supervise, maintain order and ensure the safety of preschool children and primary school students throughout the trip. In the case of vehicles with 29 seats or more (excluding the driver's seat) carrying 27 preschool children and primary school students or more, there must be at least two managers on each vehicle. The manager and driver are responsible for checking preschool children and primary school students when they get off the vehicle; preschool children and primary school students must not be left on the vehicle when the manager and driver have left the vehicle.
