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> only a small part of public transport budgets are for drivers (it looks like around 10% for LA) Well, you also have to consider that bus systems are built ar
by surrealize 14y ago
> only a small part of public transport budgets are for drivers (it looks like around 10% for LA)
Well, you also have to consider that bus systems are built around driver scarcity. What if buses were half as large, and run twice as often? They can't now, because that would double driver labor costs.
If buses were the size of vans, capital costs might even decrease due to having access to van-market economies of scale (the market for vans presumably being significantly larger than the market for buses).
- justincormack 14y agoMany countries with lower labour costs this eg the Dolmus in Turkey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolmu%C5%9F https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolmu%C5%9F
- pekk 14y agoAlso all over Africa and India. It's a very common pattern outside the weird US
- fulafel 14y agoThe sensible model seems to be called "flex service" or "demand responsive transit" (1): Dynamically routed small shuttles where customers place trip orders to the transit company, and the routing system figures out paths for the shuttles so customers get where they want to go in reasonable time. (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_responsive_transport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_responsive_transport
- eli_gottlieb 14y agoYou mean share-taxis? They're relatively common already in many places.