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One driver driving one passenger is inherently low capacity. It's taxi service. You pay more for taxi fare because it's door to door and capacity is far scarcer

One driver driving one passenger is inherently low capacity. It's taxi service. You pay more for taxi fare because it's door to door and capacity is far scarcer than bus/train seats. Small vehicles decrease capacity of the public transit network and increase labor intensity. Good luck finding a CDL holder driver who will work as a "gig" worker. Vans are cheaper than $250K buses, but that means each bus that ever has more than a dozen riders at peak usage will require two drivers or even three to service. https://humantransit.org/2019/08/what-is-microtransit-for.html https://humantransit.org/2019/08/what-is-microtransit-for.ht...

xnx 1y ago
> One driver driving one passenger is inherently low capacity. Isn't capacity primarily about passenger-miles / time? Whatever vehicle size optimizes for this is probably better. During rush hours, it could definitely make sense to use big busses. > You pay more for taxi fare because it's door to door and capacity is far scarcer than bus/train seats. Hard to compare taxi fares to transit fares when transit fares do not fully pay for the service. > Good luck finding a CDL holder driver who will work as a "gig" worker. Vans are cheaper than $250K buses This is one of the strengths of these microtransit options, no specialty employees or vehicles.