I used to live in a rural county that had regular bus routes which worked as one would expect and shorter busses you could schedule for a window the day prior or earlier. They would figure out allocation ahead of time show up and pick up and drop off a bunch of folks and drive everywhere in the boondocks.
This served as a connection between areas too rural to be Worth serving with regular routes and the more traveled parts.
Certainly very taxi-like, but closer to an Uber pool, and owned/run by the city. Via just provides the software and apps and probably a routing algorithm.
Not sure about the jersey area but my area uses short buses for the paratransit, even though they don’t have microtransit at all
Could someone explain what is meant by microtransit?
I used to live in a rural county that had regular bus routes which worked as one would expect and shorter busses you could schedule for a window the day prior or earlier. They would figure out allocation ahead of time show up and pick up and drop off a bunch of folks and drive everywhere in the boondocks.
This served as a connection between areas too rural to be Worth serving with regular routes and the more traveled parts.
I first thought it’d be like those electric scooter hire, or maybe bike hire schemes.
But looking on line it looks like it might be just a city run version of uber.
Isn’t that just taxis? Or is there something I’m missing?
Certainly very taxi-like, but closer to an Uber pool, and owned/run by the city. Via just provides the software and apps and probably a routing algorithm.
Not sure about the jersey area but my area uses short buses for the paratransit, even though they don’t have microtransit at all