Dynamic Dropoff and System Optimization do not have the flexibility nor the existing knowledge to be incrementally extended to support more flexible headway service. We propose to gradually deprecate Dynamic Dropoff in favor of building a system that can tree-out a linear route with full stop skipping and the ability to intersperse pickups and dropoffs. This will increase the flexibility of the system while simultaneously increasing the ease of understanding the routing and scheduling limitations.
- Bridj-1.0 -- Bridj before the intellectual property was acquired by Transit Systems
- Dynamic Dropoff -- currently existing service where an algorithm re-assigns traveler's booked stops so that the aggregate walk time is minimized.