About Yokohama-shi life transportation bus route maintenance system and the present conditions of route (sharing) bus

　The Yokohama City Life Transportation Bus Line is operated by making up for the deficit part with citizens' taxes. However, in the first place, you may think, "Isn't the bus running because it's in the black?" Therefore, first of all, I would like you to know the current situation of route buses nationwide.

　Route buses are said to be a labor-intensive industry (an industry where labor costs account for a high percentage of labor costs), and 57% of operating costs (* 1) is personnel expenses.
For this reason, it is difficult to improve the income and expenditure, and the management of route buses is very difficult, and about 70% of the routes operated by bus operators nationwide are deficit routes (* 2). We operate deficit routes with the profit of deficit routes with the profit of the deficit route.

※1 November 2016 survey by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
※2 From “Automotive by Numbers 2016”

　For general companies, the deficit department may be abolished, but many bus operators protect their means of transportation, including deficit routes, as described above, as a mission of those responsible for public transportation, including deficit routes. I am. On the other hand, the income and expenditure is too bad and you may have to abolish the route. The Yokohama City Life Transportation Bus Route Maintenance System is a system established so that the convenience of daily life does not greatly deteriorate due to the abolition of routes.

In order to secure daily traffic for citizens, the following routes are mainly targeted for the Yokohama City Life Transportation Bus Route Maintenance System.
＜１＞ Routes that cause areas outside 1 km from the station and 300 m from other bus stops due to abolition.
＜２＞ A route where the population is reduced within 15 minutes to the nearest station.

　Currently, there are 13 Yokohama City Life Transportation Bus Routes, and in 2020, the deficit of 506.16 million yen was covered by taxes. Please cooperate so that you can use as many buses as possible to reduce this amount of compensation.

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