Hello to Dr. Carolyn O'Farrell.

Your New Zealand walking school bus project is very interesting. You ask
what other data/results you might measure. I see you are measuring the
environmental impact which presumably includes the reduction in
car/van/vehicle miles and cold engine start-ups - based on our teleworking
studies experience I would be interested to know if any reduction in vehicle
miles is a sustained reduction or if, as happens with some homebased
teleworkers, the parents "re-allocate" the saved mileage and use it on other
types of journeys - i.e. Does the vehicle record fewer miles per
month/annum.

My second question is probably premature by ten years and you may not be
addressing it at all. This last weekend The University of Oxford announced
interactive internet lectures by famous and infamous lecturers; and the
University is starting to offer degree courses by wire. Interactive Distance
Learning (IDLE)is becoming acceptable. Australia can claim to be the pioneer
in IDLE with its School-of-the-Air, the interactive-radio based schools. I
have not heard of similar resources in New Zealand. My question is - does
IDLE have any part to play in reducing Education Escort car/van journeys. I
suspect it will have a role in the future and it may be timely to establish
some measurement methods now.

Best wishes

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