District bus
District buses are general regular services in local public transport . They open up spatially delimited city districts and residential areas internally and connect them to existing rapid transit lines or direct city bus connections (e.g. metro buses ) to the center. They provide within the defined neighborhood for fine distribution of passenger flows. With fewer than 500 passengers a day, passenger demand is rather low, so that smaller vehicles such as midibuses or minibuses are often used for district routes. Since these lines are often used by a high proportion of senior citizens for short errands, the barrier-free accessibility of the small vehicles plays a major role. In Stockholm , such bus routes are known as "service buses", which underlines the connection to important facilities such as supermarkets, medical centers or dormitories.
The concept of the district bus originally comes from Switzerland (e.g. Zurich). In the meantime, however, it has also found many imitators in Germany and Austria - often under the name district bus , in Berlin it is also known as the Kiez bus.
Closely related and functionally comparable is the city bus (the term is often also used generally for city bus ), the main focus of which is on inner-city business locations, in which it links attractive shopping centers and pedestrian zones and supplements and condenses normal regular service. In order to achieve the most extensive development possible, the lines are often loop- shaped or ring-shaped , and the clocks with a usually 15-minute cycle or closer are very attractive. City buses usually only run during business hours and there are models where they are wholly or partly financed by retailers' interest groups or advertising groups.
