That's a whopper. Cost is proportional to total energy consumption. Government transit is so energy inefficient the fares typically only cover 10% of the costs. If they tried to charge the full costs, nobody would ride these virus vector mobile insane asylums.
—” Cost is proportional to total energy consumption. Government transit is so energy inefficient the fares typically only cover 10% of the costs. “
A very interesting supposition.
We have many suburban busses and most that I see on the street are empty.
Some may claim highspeed rail is taking it to the absurd, but the numbers are very real and from outer space.
Have you seen anything published on this view?