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  In bus: Modern buses
  School buses generally consist of a 50-passenger bus body, with special signal lamp and safety provisions, mounted on a long-wheelbase truck chassis. As fuel costs increased during the 1990s and 2000s, bus ridership increased in many urban regions around the world.
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effect on small towns

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  In transportation economics: The influence of transportation on human resources
  In the United States, the school bus also led to the decline of small towns, because it made it possible to consolidate numerous small schools. Hamlets where small schools were closed went into decline.
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