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Moias predecessor: call buses from the analog world

2019-09-27T16:41:13.639Z


Full-bodied promise: R buses should revolutionize public transit in the late 1970s, much as ridesharing services like Moia now promise. For this purpose, in two pilot projects - in the cities of Wunstorf and Friedrichshafen - radically all old bus routes were abolished. For this purpose, a pure ordering system was introduced - bus driving "on demand". In the end, both systems failed because of their own success: the more passengers used the demand buses, the longer the waiting times and the route guidance could become chaotic. Thus, from a hoped-for short trip sometimes a long odyssey through the entire city.


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Full-bodied promise: R buses should revolutionize public transit in the late 1970s, much as ridesharing services like Moia now promise. For this purpose, in two pilot projects - in the cities of Wunstorf and Friedrichshafen - radically all old bus routes were abolished. For this purpose, a pure ordering system was introduced - bus driving "on demand". In the end, both systems failed because of their own success: the more passengers used the demand buses, the longer the waiting times and the route guidance could become chaotic. Thus, from a hoped-for short trip sometimes a long odyssey through the entire city.

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Source: spiegel

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