Comment by renewiltord
7 days ago
Smaller vehicles allow more dynamic dispatch. SF buses are low quality transport because they have to stop every block to allow for an elderly local population. With vans, you can put more of them on the road and dynamic dispatch allows them to skip stops for non-loading.
This structure allows for greater QoS through the system. Almost any sufficiently dense place without regulation limiting it approaches a mix of larger buses on fixed routes with smaller vehicles on slightly less fixed routes.
SF Muni has a 13% absence rate. Without the driver we can have more vehicles, more often, and on-time every time. Once we can do that, we can vary the size of the vehicles to cover different routes and to allow for QoS.
That is a horrible idea and shows how little you care or think about bus riders. Bus riders need predictable. If the but has dynamic dispatach you can't trust it will get you there on time. We need predictable routes with minimal variance so everyone gets predictable. Good qos is predictable.
> Good qos is predictable.
Definitely. I've found rideshare type service to be much more predictable because it is isn't subject to bus bunching and can route around traffic.
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