Demand Responsive Transport: lessons to be learnt from Less Developed Countries

摘要

Marcus Enoch examines three Demand Responsive Transport (DRT) schemes which are being successfully operated in Turkey, Hong Kong and Mauritius and asks what the UK can learn from their experiences. With the rapid increase in car ownership, the market share of public transport systems has been gradually declining throughout much of the industrialised world since the 1950s. This has a consequence not only of the car directly replacing specific trips, but also of indirect mechanisms that affect the demand for transport through dispersing activity and land use patterns making them less suitable for buses and rail-based modes to serve.