Nearly 13.5 billion passengers are lost in a year, and since 2021, 18 buses have fallen into the quagmire of suspension and wage arrears.
During this time, the days of the bus company, a little difficult.
However, this mode of transportation, which is closely related to urban development, has been trapped by the continuous decline in passenger traffic and huge losses since the beginning of this year, and some bus companies have been suspended.
What is the situation in the Yangtze River Delta, and the "next stop" of the bus will go to **?
What are the hidden concerns of the industry exposed by the bus as a wedding car?
Early on Monday morning, the groom, Mr. Zhao, came to the bride's house to pick up his relatives, and the difference is that his wedding car is a bus.
Big red wedding letters, wedding balloons, and even the handles are full of festive decorations.
Compared with the rental cost of at least 2,000 yuan for the local wedding car fleet, the high cost performance of the "bus wedding car" for half a day is 400 yuan, which makes some young people want to come to "try it".
Since the launch of the "bus wedding car" business in August this year, there have been more than 10 orders.
Although for bus operators, after removing the cost of manpower, energy and vehicle maintenance, the wedding car business is still in the stage of "losing money and making money", and the income is less than 10,000 yuan, but it is better to take precautions than digging wells when you are thirsty.
Song Yan, general manager of Bozhou Public Transport Group, told reporters that the passenger flow of buses has been declining, and the pressure on enterprises is not small. The fundamental purpose of the bus as a wedding car is to increase the passenger flow.
In order to protect the travel of citizens, in the past ten years, the number of public transport vehicles in Bozhou has increased from 100 to 577, and the proportion of new energy vehicles has increased from 0 to 922%, the number of bus stops increased from 68 to 319, which greatly improved the experience and comfort of passengers.
However, Song Yanhe said frankly that the result is that the number of employees has surged from 243 to 990, and the cost of personnel wages, new car purchases, and vehicle maintenance has been rising, while passenger flow has continued to decline, and problems have followed.
As far as Bozhou is concerned, because the local rail transit has not been developed, the population base is less than 5 million, and the geographical area is less than 8,500 square kilometers, the public transport is not affected by the diversion much, when they also feel the "chill", what will happen to other cities in the Yangtze River Delta.
Can public transport bring considerable profits?
Early on a working day, Uncle Xu, a farmer in Hongling Village, Xitang Town, rode an electric three-wheeler and carried two bags of rice just produced by his cooperative to the Gongfu hut at the entrance of the village.
Wu Yuyan is the "housekeeper" of the Gongfu Cottage in Hongling Village, which is equivalent to the team leader of the building in the city. Since two years ago, she has another identity, the docking person of "Cargo Bus".
Receiving goods in the village, contacting the bus, and delivering goods to the bus have now become her job responsibilities.
At present, Jiashan has opened a total of 8 passenger, freight and mail cooperation lines. As of the third quarter of this year, the total number of passenger, freight and express deliveries sent by the "bus with goods" has exceeded 1.5 million pieces in rural areas.
Cooperate with the courier company to deliver together, and under the premise of preferential freight, both parties will share the benefits.
The front sits on the person, the back deliveries, and the passengers, goods and mail cooperate. Take the 317 bus as an example, this bus line starting from Yaozhuang bus station and passing through many villages and towns in the county, has been the first choice for many villagers to travel in the past, and now the passenger flow is only half of the past, but the number of departures can not be reduced at all, and the "bus with goods" came into being.
Chen Jianfeng, deputy director of Jiashan County Highway and Transportation Management Service Center, introduced that the bus as a whole is facing a lot of difficulties, this time by revitalizing the stock of bus stations, the state-owned assets are a full use, the most important thing is that the bus company also has a certain income through the goods.
One of the direct reasons behind the bus "receiving express delivery" seems to be "not doing business" is that the bus has a long waiting time, slow speed, and unpunctuality, which itself has become less attractive.
The data shows that since 2014, bus passengers have shown a decreasing trend year by year, and the average annual natural loss of passenger traffic is 241%, from the national number of passenger traffic per unit mileage, the average bus transport per kilometer is only 146 people.
Chen Xiaohong, dean of the Railway and Urban Rail Transit Research Institute of Tongji University, believes that the poor operation of public transport companies is widespread, and it must be a "dead end" according to the traditional bus line layout and operation mode, so his way out is to change.
While passenger traffic is declining and income is decreasing, vehicle maintenance, digital transformation, wages**, and bus company costs are increasing.
Due to the overwhelm of local finances, many large and medium-sized cities have tried to marketize public transportation.
Can customizing "taking a bus" become a guide to "self-help"?
Ms. Wu, who lives in the high-speed rail new city in Suzhou High-tech Zone, works in Suzhou Science and Technology City, and now there is a bus to pick her up on time every weekday.
The "bus" mode used by Ms. Wu is a customized bus service launched by Suzhou Public Transport Group at the beginning of the year, and passengers can choose their own time and station through the app** reservation platform.
Yin Qi, deputy chief of the operation information department of Suzhou Public Transport Group, said that in the past, conventional buses were opened at fixed points and scheduled shifts, and in many cases did not match the needs of passengers.
Nowadays, the cost of an empty bus is 10 yuan per kilometer, and under this model, the cost can be reduced by more than 30%.
The appointment of five people to depart, reduce the probability of empty driving, and the innovation of the service model are actually the "forced results" after the passenger flow has fallen by 30% in the past three years.
The road to innovation is not an easy one. The buses that were originally scheduled and fixed now need to be booked through mobile phones, which makes it difficult for elderly passengers in the jurisdiction to adapt for a while.
In Chen Xiaohong's view, it is not impossible to save labor and reduce costs through cross-line scheduling and various technical means. But the main business and the side business can't put the cart before the horse.
In the opinion of experts, for the time being, the tension between the strategy of the public transport city at the macro level and the demand for personalized transportation services at the micro level will continue to increase.
Public transport resources need to be structurally optimized, and the passenger flow of some bus lines has decreased, but the transportation needs of some commuting, commuting and new communities have not yet been fully met.
Chen Xiaohong believes that compared with rail transit, the space, time, positioning and passenger flow demand of public transportation are worthy of full research and excavation.
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