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85 Overview Demand–response transit has historically been most strongly associated with the provision of services for people with disabilities. Such paratransit services are inherently inefficient due to the time needed to attend to the special needs of passengers with disabilities and the minimal amount of multiloading of passengers.
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86 Microtransit or General Public Demand–Response Transit Services: State of the Practice 1% of a transit system's total ridership. It might not be unreasonable to ask if transit agencies' interest in general public DRT is much ado about relatively little.
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Conclusions 87 rating of any of the many modes they offer. Transit agencies continue to tinker with the method of providing the service to lower costs per trip, including paying contractors by the trip or by the mile rather than by the hour.
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88 Microtransit or General Public Demand–Response Transit Services: State of the Practice While it is unknown how far into the future automated transit shuttles will be in service, there are consultants who predict it will not be decades but possibly only a few years. Automated transit shuttles on streets are deployed in different areas of the world (33)
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