The Commission, set up to investigate home-to-school travel across the UK, echoes key features of Metro's scheme, and its proposals for the extension of Mybus in the future.

Metro Chairman Councillor Chris Greaves said: "Features of Metro's scheme such as dedicated drivers, registers and CCTV, enhanced training and staggered school hours are all among the Commission's recommendations."

Primary and secondary school services

The Commission also recommends the introduction of yellow bus services for all primary school pupils living more than a mile from their school, and secondary pupils living over two miles from school. And it says mixed vehicle types would help the integration of mobility-impaired pupils, long-term contracts would encourage investment in vehicles and the use of vehicles for other local services would maximise cost-effectiveness.

"These and other recommendations reflect those in a Metro Mybus report this week, which marks the end of the scheme's four-year development phase," said Councillor Greaves.

"If the decision makers act on the Commission's recommendations, the rest of England and Wales could be seeing the same substantial reductions in peak-time traffic and CO2 as Metro has achieved across West Yorkshire."

Metro's Mybus - a 'national blueprint for school travel'