What is microtransit?

In the past decade, transportation has seen a revolution as a result of technology and new emerging concepts in mobility. Pooling services, such as Uber and Lyft, and now microtransit, are all relatively new ways in which people get around. In this video I explain what microtransit is.
Microtransit is a form of demand-responsive transport. This transit service offers a highly flexible routing and/or highly flexible scheduling of minibus vehicles shared with other passengers. Microtransit aims to provide on demand and flexible transit, allowing individuals to use the service like other pooling services like Uber or Lyft, except are being run by transit agencies or independent transportation services themselves. I view microtransit as a potential solution in order to increase transit connectivity and options in more suburban and rural areas. Microtransit itself is in its primitive stages. Its success in the coming years will be determined off the many pilot programs across the country occuring.
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