BIMBIBUS
This project is implemented from 2009 by the Municipality of Formigine in collaboration with the Agency for the Mobility of Modena (aMo www.amo.mo.it) and local schools.
It involves primary school pupils and it works as a "human bus": there is a caravan of children passengers who go to school walking in group accompanied by two or more adults; the caravan follows a specific itinerary with defined timetable and stops, travelling with any kind of weather. Every child and every adult wears a high-visibility bib and an identification badge with the logo of the Bimbibus project and his/her own name.
The last school year there were 86 pupils, 29 adults (parents, grandparents, volunteers), 6 itineraries between m 700 and m 1.400 long, 4 schools.
From its activation, the "human bus" has walked 48.000 km (more than 10.000 km in the last school year), saving an estimated total of 98.000 grams of co2 emissions, equivalent to 1.270 square meters of forest.
Bimbibus project is confirmed for the next school year 2014/2015 and pursues these goals:
- activating more itineraries
- involving more pupils and adults
- making it work every day of the week