Gansu to use GPS to improve safety

LANZHOU - Schools in Northwest China's Gansu province have been asked to install Global Positioning Systems (GPS) in school buses in the latest move to improve school transport safety after an accident that killed 19 children last month.

The GPS equipment will allow transportation safety regulators to monitor the location and speed of school buses, said education officials with the provincial government on Saturday.

Stricter rules will also apply to school buses and their drivers. Schools must take responsibility for safe transportation of students while local work safety administrations, usually assigned to monitor industrial facilities, have been asked to take responsibility for school bus safety.