I spent much of today reading some of the Transit Capacity and Quality of Service Manual, which is a long and 176 MB PDF that I expect to never read all of, since much of it is technical and numeric stuff of interest only if you're actually running a transit agency. But chapter 2 is largely talking about different transit concepts and types, which I did find interesting. And in particular it went into the history and various types of Demand Responsive Transit (DRT), and their productivity or ridership (passengers per vehicle-hour, or 'revenue hour').

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I did a bunch of reading on this yesterday, I think sparked by a NUMTOTS post on yet another microtransit idea. Figured I’d share.