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Re:Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes by iggldiggl on Monday May 19, 2025 @07:59AM (#44028873)
They did a study for a small- to medium-size town in Germany – based on traffic modelling, it was estimated that an extensive on-demand system with almost 500 on-demand vehicles would only have about the same effect on passenger numbers as simply extending all existing fixed-routes bus routes to run every ten minutes all day (which for a town of that size is a rather good service), but operating the fleet of on-demand vehicles was so expensive that even fully automated on-demand vehicles were significantly more expensive than driver-operated conventional buses (never mind automated conventional buses).

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