DEMAND-RESPONSIVE OPERATING FORMS AS PART OF DIFFERENTIATED SERVICE MODEL IN REGIONAL PUBLIC TRANSPORT

Low demand patterns outside the major built-up areas in the transport region during peak hours and at weekends prompted the Westphalia Transport Association Ltd. (WVG) firms to consider the development of demand-responsive forms of operation. In the process, these forms, whose service characteristics clearly differ from the conventional line operations using buses that are commonly found in rural areas, are assuming great importance within WVG's service strategy. Thus, demand-responsive service forms, like other modified PT products, are being marketed as product lines within their own right as part of WVG's "Differentiated Service Model". In the WVG transport region, these have taken the form of hailed shared taxi and taxibus services.

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  • Accession Number: 00715216
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Jan 21 1996 12:00AM