I'm doing a check around Australia to find which are the most heavily-patronised individual bus routes in each major city. I'm talking about patronage (passenger journeys) per annum on individual routes, not where groups of routes go along one section of a common corridor.
Instinctively I would think that one of the O Bahn routes might be one of the busiest, as this corridor carries something between 10 and 12 million people per annum according to information over the years. But this is several routes combined. I'm looking for the single busiest route service.
The other part of the question relates to the free services in Adelaide CBD - the free circulator bus loops and the tram between South Terrace and Convention Centre. The last figure I've seen for all free services in Adelaide, including event specials, is about 8 million ppa, but has anybody seen any subdivision for the tram and the loop buses within that figure? The total patronage on the tram is published of course, but that includes the Glenelg line. I would be presuming as a ballpark guess that the free section of the tram carries about 2/3 to 3/4 of the total tram patronage (?). TIA.
Adelaide's busiest bus routes?
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300 would have to be a busy route. Followed by M44, 224, 228,
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tonyp wrote:I'm doing a check around Australia to find which are the most heavily-patronised individual bus routes in each major city. I'm talking about patronage (passenger journeys) per annum on individual routes, not where groups of routes go along one section of a common corridor.
Instinctively I would think that one of the O Bahn routes might be one of the busiest, as this corridor carries something between 10 and 12 million people per annum according to information over the years. But this is several routes combined. I'm looking for the single busiest route service.
The other part of the question relates to the free services in Adelaide CBD - the free circulator bus loops and the tram between South Terrace and Convention Centre. The last figure I've seen for all free services in Adelaide, including event specials, is about 8 million ppa, but has anybody seen any subdivision for the tram and the loop buses within that figure? The total patronage on the tram is published of course, but that includes the Glenelg line. I would be presuming as a ballpark guess that the free section of the tram carries about 2/3 to 3/4 of the total tram patronage (?). TIA.
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/sout ... 1a18decafbThe M44, which runs between Marion Centre Interchange and Golden Grove Village Interchange, is the city’s most popular bus route by total number of passengers — around 500,000 more for the year than the next busiest route.
Re: Adelaide's busiest bus routes?
Any actual patronage figures for these busiest routes anybody?
This threw up a paywall, so I can't read it.
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Lets see if this link works, its from the paywalled article above. http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/b23c ... ?width=650
Data is a bit old but M44 is clearly the busiest route.
Data is a bit old but M44 is clearly the busiest route.
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Re: Adelaide's busiest bus routes?
It may give a skewed view of the loadings; but four of the top five routes are cross-City routes: M44, G10, B10 and H30 all go between two suburban destinations via the City while other through-running routes that have different numbers on each side of the City (e.g. 190, 230) are counted separately.
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Re: Adelaide's busiest bus routes?
Thank you, just what I needed!Torrens_5022 wrote:Lets see if this link works, its from the paywalled article above. http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/b23c ... ?width=650
Data is a bit old but M44 is clearly the busiest route.
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I found that a Google search for the article (and clicking) momentarily resolved the paywall issue. There are supposedly other methods too that I won't mention.
There isn't a great deal on there that isn't on news.com.au anyhow.
There isn't a great deal on there that isn't on news.com.au anyhow.
Re: Adelaide's busiest bus routes?
On our recent family holiday we travelled on the Glenelg tram.Although not a bus route this would have to rank the busiest public transport service in Adelaide.Packed most of the route with very good passenger turnover.Anyone know the patronage figures here??.Based on the loadings I saw it certaintly justifies an upgrade on peak and off peak frequency.
Re: Adelaide's busiest bus routes?
The Glenelg (paid) component of the line accounts for only about 2+ million ppa but with the free zone passengers added its about 7 to 8 million ppa. Yes it's busier than any individual bus route but one would hope so, being a tram! However its not as busy as the combined services along the O Bahn that I understand carry about 10 to 12 million ppa.