ACT Public Transport Strategic Network Plan - Service Types

[Buzz Killington]

Key Types of Service

The strategic network is constructed of four types of service, all designed to interconnect and work together to provide a complete mobility system for travel throughout the city:

RAPID service is both frequent and fast all day. It serves widely spaced stops, generally between 0 .5 and 2 .0 km apart, so as to achieve a high average speed for long trips across the city. The existing Intertown linking Belconnen, City, Woden and Tuggeranong is an example of a Rapid.

FREQUENT LOCAL service is frequent all day, but makes local stops every 200 - 400m and therefore runs more slowly. It is intended to serve local high density corridors.

The Rapid and Frequent Local services, considered together, are called the Frequent Network.

PEAK EXPRESS runs only during peak commute hours, and only in the peak commute direction (from home areas to work / school areas in the morning, and back in the afternoon). These routes have long nonstop segments to serve commute demand that exists only during the commute period. The
existing Xpresso routes are an example of peak express services.

COVERAGE service is all-day local service that circulates through low-density suburbs where patronage potential is low. These services exist to meet basic mobility needs citywide, but are not expected to achieve high patronage. As a result, they run at low frequencies, usually every 30 minutes during commute peaks and every 60 minutes midday and evening.

[route56]

if you read the whole thing i reckon they are going to cut the number of services in the outer suburbs, and then standardise a one hour service.