Here is why: your average city bus can move 40-80 passengers per hour under ideal conditions. This is not satire, this is backed up by real-life data collected in an on-going transit project. So should every other municipal transit agency in North America. Long story short, the MTA should get rid of some of their bus routes and replace them with a flexible, application based, stop-to-stop, on-demand bus service. Specifically this is for New York City, and their Bus Optimization Challenge.
This is a post designed to push the boundaries of how the public transit industry considers its planning, operations and innovation strategies for road based transit service. A Modest Proposal for the MTA Bus Company By: Luke Mellor
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