lmfao, in Japan it'll just mean private rail companies replace half their bus fleets with AVs and keep making bankhttps://twitter.com/CityLab/status/783657322312785920 …
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Haunted Forrest 🌲 Retweeted CityLab
lmfao, in Japan it'll just mean private rail companies replace half their bus fleets with AVs and keep making bankhttps://twitter.com/CityLab/status/783657322312785920 …
Haunted Forrest 🌲 added,
the beautiful thing about AVs is that they transform cars from private transportation into (very low capacity) public transportation
I don't expect Americans (or even most Europeans) to figure this out, but Japan knows the principle well enough
Imagine fleets of AVs buzzing around Japan's suburbs, bringing elderly people and children to the train station. Ridership's gonna soar!
In cities, where space is at a premium, this is a no-brainer. But it might boost rural rail ridership too...
In rural Japan, conventional rail lines only carry significant numbers of passengers on express services, not local.
Where practical, HSR replaces the express services, and the local ones are spun off to non-profit municipal ownership.
Usually, these non-profit lines operate for the rest of a generation, then close. AVs could replace them entirely!
Rural Japanese transit, then, would be driverless cars shuttling people to the nearest bullet train station. The future is glorious!
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