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Pattern Number: 20Pattern Title: Mini-buses
Category: Towns
Sub-Category: Community networks
Up links: 11 Local Transport Areas 16 Web of Public Transportation
Horizontal links:
Down links: 23 Parallel Roads 34 Interchange 92 Bus Stop
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Summary 1: Establish a system of small taxi-like buses, carrying up to six people each, radio-controlled, on call by telephone, able to provide point-to-point service according to the passengers' needs, and supplemented by a computer system which guarantees minimum detours, and minimum waiting times.
Summary 2: While conventional fixed route public transport systems are experiencing a dangerous spiral of lower levels of service, fewer passengers, and increased public subsidies, over 30 working dial-a-bus systems are presently in successful operation throughout the world.
Summary 3: A dial-a-bus system in Regina, Saskatchewan, is the only part of the Regina Transit System which supports itself.
Summary 4: Among the physically disabled about 5.7 million are potential riders of public transportation if the system could take them door-to-door.
Summary 5: Second, quite apart from these special needs, the fact is that a web of public transportation, with large buses, boats, and trains, will not work anyway, without a mini-bus system.
Summary 6: The mini-bus system is essential for the purpose of providing feeder service in the larger web of public transportation..
Keywords: system public transportation bus people
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