minibus

If a service is a minibus, I add all the fields that I need for the minibus, and omit the ones for a train for example.

This could easily be extended to larger vehicles (minibus) plying regular and popular routes at peak times.

Trains run on stop-by-stop schedules, all of the bus services just a normal departure-based schedule, and minibus completely dynamic.

Aetherson, What about large scale taxi/minibus sharing(something like kutsuplus[1]), is something like that possible or on the roadmaps of hailing companies?

Focus instead on helping irregular travelers find rides or minibus entrepreneurs find paying passengers.

In South Africa there are trains, buses, minibus and other services (metered taxis, shuttles).

There may be a minibus network or similar, but getting to a major urban centre is a big deal, costs a significant amount.

You could book your commute to work the night before, and a self driving minibus will come and pick you, and 15 other people up.

This seems an extension of the existing South African minibus taxi industry model, where drivers make a daily quota for taxi owners, then keep the rest.

Thus was born the unregulated minibus taxi industry.

> and minibus service that will pick up and drop off the elderly from doorstep.

However, if you went right up to it and peered hard enough through the windows, you could see that it was just a regular minibus with seating and no equipment inside.

That road leads to "how many golfballs in a minibus" type of puzzlers and we already have data now that shows that those things don't work.

"Twelve dollars, twelve minutes" (to Mong Kok from Kennedy Town), as a local said to me about the red minibus:-) 12 HKD is 1.5 USD.

Minibus systems appear everywhere, especially in poorer developing countries with fast-growing cities.