Thats a pretty flawed comparison, there's many countries that
have very punctual bus services and timetables, but pay attention
to their timetable. Not many of it have frequency of less than
15mins.
Its not possible to simply compare services between countries
this way, because of the frequency of our services here in sg, and
more importantly, the traffic situation in our country. Services
that run in rural areas in Japan, even Taiwan and USA have very
punctual buses, but their buses arnt subjected to multiple buses
calling at a single bus stop at the same time, nor the heavy
traffic situation, and definately not the tremendous amount of
traffic lights our buses go thru on their journey.
A fairer comparison would be with services in the cities of
countries, which in this regard, sbst is doing relatively ok and
smrt less so.
Lastly, i would say its not feasible to run services at such
frequencies as proposed unless #1. the loading supports it (or
changes to support it), or #2. smaller capacity vehicles are
deployed just to cater to lower demand routes to make it run at
higher frequency. (e.g darts).
Bus companies have to factor in the loading factor/percentage of
each route before deciding what kind of vehicles, and frequency is
suitable in order to maintain a breakeven with its costs. It is
therefore not constructive just to throw out some "ideal" frequency
without knowledge of the loading of the vehicles at each time slot,
and each weekday.
I undertand your problem down here
BUT can I hear of any of the bus service you board have this
problem?like long frequency??(just asking as you can see it)
