Flexible Transport Services: A New Market Opportunity for Public Transport
The term Demand-Responsive Transport (DRT) has been increasingly applied in the last 10 years to a niche market that replaces or feeds (usually via small low floor buses or taxis) conventional transport where demand is low and often spread over a large area. More recently, the concept of DRT as a niche market has been broadened to include a wider range of flexible, demand-responsive transport services and is increasingly referred to as Flexible Transport Services (FTSs). The contention of this paper is that well-implemented FTS has the potential to revitalize bus-based public transport services which are traditionally based on fixed networks with variable geographical coverage and levels of service.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Abstract reprinted with permission from Elsevier
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Authors:
- Mulley, Corinne
- Nelson, John D
- Publication Date: 2009
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Print
- Features: Figures; References;
- Pagination: pp 39-45
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Serial:
- Research in Transportation Economics
- Volume: 25
- Issue Number: 1
- Publisher: Elsevier
- ISSN: 0739-8859
- Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/07398859
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Accessibility; Bus transit; Demand responsive transportation; Rural areas; Transit operating agencies
- Uncontrolled Terms: Flexible transport services
- Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01162731
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS, ATRI
- Created Date: Jul 16 2010 11:36AM