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
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.
Could someone explain what is meant by microtransit?
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
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.