Pingo Flex™ Primarily Fixed Route
An agency runs a fixed route along a narrow area of high density (perfect for a fixed route) but has intermittent demand along the way, say a mile off the route (especially e.g. from paratransit users or others who can’t travel easily to the fixed route). The service can be set to deviate from the fixed route to pick up these riders when certain constraints are met (e.g. time, distance, rider type and so on).
Pingo Flex™ Primarily On-Demand
An agency runs a primarily on-demand service that switches to a “fixed” route at a certain time when there’s a known spike in demand. This could be when school gets out at 3.30pm or when a factory shift ends at 6pm. In the case of the school example, the bus will make a designated stop at the school at say 3.35pm and then run a fixed route for an hour after that before returning to on-demand.
