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Originally Posted by twoNeurons

I cam across this interesting video on City Beautiful which talked about Metro Micro.https://micro.metro.net

Customized transit is very expensive to provide. You can gain ridership if you subsidize it the point of providing convenient enough service, but is that really the best use of scarce transit funds?

"Last mile" transit is a terrific application for autonomous vehicles, assuming that the operating cost of these can be brought down to something close to the cost of current ride share vehicles. But as soon as you need to pay a driver the economics turn against it.