12-07-2020, 06:26 PM
(12-07-2020, 11:31 AM)Momo26 Wrote: Country Hills perhaps not the best example - I'm actually thinking a bit further out like in some examples I gave even so, more frequency is key - they can be smaller busses (smaller costs) and relatively seamless ...
Smaller busses aren't smaller costs, though. The short busses, even though they only can carry 1/4 the passengers they still use close to half the fuel of the full-sized ones. And since the fixed cost of a driver is the same, the end result is the short busses have a higher operating cost per ride than the full sized ones and as such if the route ever has more than 20 riders on a segment at at time it's cheaper to use a full sized buss than two small ones.