May-June 2016: The Bus Rennaissance - Intercity Travel, Bus Rapid Transit, Technology Advances, Rural Services (2016) / Chapter Skim
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TR N EW S 30 3 M AY –J UN E 20 16 4 The author is Director and Professor, Chaddick Insti tute for Metropolitan Development, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, and coauthor of an annual year-in-review of the intercity bus industry. Aresurgence in intercity bus service is chang-ing commercial competition for travelersbetween many cities in the United States.
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TR N EW S 303 M AY–JUN E 2016 5 30-year period before 2006, when Megabus aggressively entered the U.S. market and helped orchestrate the turnaround.
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TR N EW S 30 3 M AY –J UN E 20 16 6 and passengers on tight budgets, but these cut-rate services soon began to attract young urban professionals and travelers with larger budgets. The corporate carriers eventually copied the successful curbside model.
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TR N EW S 303 M AY–JUN E 2016 7 ington, D.C., the following year, while smaller carriers, such as Go Buses and Vamoose, operated side by side in the NEC. New Frontiers Observers wondered if the curbside bus model would be viable in car-dominated regions with thinly provided rail and bus services.
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TR N EW S 30 3 M AY –J UN E 20 16 8 Industry Size No centralized data set allows for accurate measurements of the intercity bus renaissance. Aggregate-level and route-level data are available for rail passenger and air travel, but intercity bus carriers are not required to report traffic statistics.
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TR N EW S 303 M AY–JUN E 2016 9 These carriers handle 12 to 13 million riders annually and generally do not make interline arrangements. Examples are Boltbus, Megabus, and Go Buses.
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TR N EW S 30 3 M AY –J UN E 20 16 10 Booking data from Wanderu suggest that bus travelers crave flexibility. More than half of the ticket purchases through the system occur less than two days before the departures.
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