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by supertrope
380 days ago
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One driver driving one passenger is inherently low capacity. It's taxi service. You pay more for taxi fare because it's door to door and capacity is far scarcer than bus/train seats. Small vehicles decrease capacity of the public transit network and increase labor intensity. Good luck finding a CDL holder driver who will work as a "gig" worker. Vans are cheaper than $250K buses, but that means each bus that ever has more than a dozen riders at peak usage will require two drivers or even three to service. https://humantransit.org/2019/08/what-is-microtransit-for.ht... |
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Isn't capacity primarily about passenger-miles / time? Whatever vehicle size optimizes for this is probably better. During rush hours, it could definitely make sense to use big busses.
> You pay more for taxi fare because it's door to door and capacity is far scarcer than bus/train seats.
Hard to compare taxi fares to transit fares when transit fares do not fully pay for the service.
> Good luck finding a CDL holder driver who will work as a "gig" worker. Vans are cheaper than $250K buses
This is one of the strengths of these microtransit options, no specialty employees or vehicles.