"Martin Rich" wrote in message
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Certainly something similar was tried in areas of London 20-30 years
ago. What's changed since then is the widespread use of mobile
phones, but in terms of transport the idea is nothing new.

For what it's worth I think the project's promoters do themselves a
disservice by being over-ambitious. There's a case study of somebody
travelling from Muswell Hill to Charing Cross Road. The passenger
wonders what route the taxibus would take. So did I as I read the
case, as it's scheduled for just over 30 minutes in the morning peak
hour: that would be a good time for that journey even with almost no
traffic around.

And there's the rub, or at least part of it. The model is dependent
on attracting most other traffic off the road. That isn't just car
commuters into work, but also delivery drivers, and for that matter
anybody in a car with lots of luggage, or small children, or elderly
passengers, and by the look of it most passengers in existing buses as
well. Which certainly isn't going to happen overnight

You might like to go into Google and look for "rdh +taxibus", which will
give you a link to a PDF document in which the first article is about the
Taxibus system operated by RDH Services around Ditchling and Barcombe in
East Sussex.
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Terry Harper, Web Co-ordinator, The Omnibus Society
http://www.omnibussoc.org
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