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The only problem I can see with this is when you have a neighborhood of kids that all go to the same school (which I think is pretty typical in most US areas), six people just isn't going to be enough. I realize six is a tradeoff, but at my bus-stop in high school, we had 12-15 kids that all caught the bus.

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The article implies that smaller vehicle capacities means routes are more specialized and riders are picked up directly from the home instead of bus stops. The alternative, picking up 10+ riders at their homes, is quite inefficient in terms of route length and thus, in most cases, a longer ride time too. This of course comes at the expense of having a larger quantity of smaller vehicles.

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