Innovations

Companies taking part in financing better Public transport connections to their sites.

Code

PT4.17

Title

Companies taking part in financing better Public transport connections to their sites.

Case study/reference

https://www.ovmagazine.nl/2015/10/bedrijven-betalen-mee-aan-nieuwe-buslijn-2150/ (Dutch)

Kleine, R. & Anonymous respondent (manager of such a project). (2017) Interview about companies financing better PT. (no report)

Recommendations for the design

Recommendations for the implementation

The Public Transport line should be good from the start or (potential) users will have bad experiences and therefore might not us the line anymore.

Support the companies to effectively organise such a thing, as they probably have not got minimal experience. If they have to do everything on their own, management costs rise fast.

Brief description

Full description

Twelve companies in the Netherlands have organized themselves in a foundation, which will compensate the operator of a bus line to their business locations in the case the bus line does not attract enough travellers itself. With this measure, the risk of setting up the service is distributed and does not solely rely on the operator. The bus line, which from the beginning started out with sufficient frequency, attracted over 100 daily travellers after about one month in operation.

CIPTEC score

3.7