THE HARROGATE "CHAUFFEUR-COACH" SERVICE

Since October 1972 an off-peak dial-a-bus service has been operated in Harrogate, using a 15-seat minibus which carries approx. 2000 trips per month to and from the town centre, or 2 to 4 per cent of all off-peak trips to the centre. The service is proving particularly popular with the elderly, and is most successful in the more affluent suburbs. Few people living off the regular route know that the bus can be diverted to their home on request, and only about 9 per cent of trips involve diversions. Quantifiable social benefits exceed the operating deficit, and there are also additional, unquantifiable, benefits generated. /Author/TRRL/

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• Corporate Authors:

  Printerhall Limited

  29 Newmart Street
  London W1P 3PE,   England 
• Authors:
  • Crockford, E D
• Publication Date: 1974-8-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 3 p.
• Serial:
  • Traffic Engineering & Control
  • Volume: 15
  • Issue Number: 16/1
  • Publisher: Hemming Group, Limited
  • ISSN: 0041-0683
  • Serial URL: http://www.tecmagazine.com/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aged; Benefit cost analysis; Buses; Demand; Door to door service; Minibuses; Paratransit services; Telephone
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• Old TRIS Terms: Dial-a-bus
• ITRD Terms: 226: Cost benefit analysis; 285: Demand (econ); 1084: Stop (public transport); 390: Telephone; 8119: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00096831
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 10 1975 12:00AM