BCC 1000th bus

[Jonno]

Notice a bus this morning with 1000th bus written on its side plus the words "1000 buses means 40,000 cars off the road".  Yes one bus carries the equivalent of 40 cars I know but does this not assume the one bus is used by those 40 people exclusively and not how many services it provides? Have I got the maths wrong? How many cars can one bus potentially take off the roads?

[#Metro]

A standard bus can take 65 people.
If 40 of those are 'off the road'

then 65 / 40 = 1.6 passengers per car, so this is still to high because IMHO its closer to 1.2 IIRC.
The car occupancy has been overestimated IMHO, leading to an underestimation of the cars off the road number.

Anyway,

1000 buses x 40 = 40 000

Its very simplistic PR, which is what its purpose is.

The suggestion is also wrong for two reasons:
* some of those trips are people who have never had a car
* It assumes that 1 trip per day is made one way for those people

Its not harmful, its just there for PR.

[Jonno]

Agree but I think it can send the wring message that on bus only takes 40 cars off the road when it can in fact take 40 cars per trip if not more.  This one bus should be able to take 100's of cars off the road.

[frereOP]

But we all know BCC can't count

http://railbotforum.org/mbs/index.php?topic=4146.msg30502#msg30502

[#Metro]

Well I hope the bus order was for 500 and not 5000!!!