OPTIONS FOR SUBURBAN PARATRANSIT SYSTEMS

Once a public authority has decided on a paratransit service for suburban public transport, it has valuable lessons to learn from overseas experience. This is particularly true of the "second generation" demand responsive systems that followed early dial-a-rides. These are less flexible in scheduling, but maintain route flexibility which raises dependability, eases co-ordination with other services, and lowers dispatching costs. /Author/TRRL/

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • From the Papers of the Fifth Australian Transport Research Forum, Sydney, 18-20 April 1979.
• Corporate Authors:

  New South Wales Ministry of Transport, Australia

  117 Macquarie Street
  Sydney, New South Wales,   Australia 
• Authors:
  • ADAM, W M
• Publication Date: 1979

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 723-740
• Serial:
  • Publication of: New South Wales Ministry of Transport, Australia
  • Publisher: New South Wales Ministry of Transport, Australia
  • ISSN: 0307-7683

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Demand responsive transportation; Operations research; Paratransit services; Public transit; Suburbs; Timetables
• Old TRIS Terms: Timetable (Transp)
• ITRD Terms: 1157: Community transport; 8525: Conference; 1157: Dial a ride; 9055: Operational research; 1128: Paratransit; 744: Public transport; 1186: Timetable
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00300031
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Report/Paper Numbers: Conf Paper
• Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Sep 29 1981 12:00AM