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In regard to bus routes which have key traffic functions in large cities,
various steps will be taken to grant subsidies to new urban bus systems. Under
such systems exclusive bus lanes will be provided to secure bus operations at
regular intervals and thereby regain the public reliance on bus services while
total bus route control systems, chiefly bus approach indicators and computer-controlled
bus service management, will be introduced. The new urban bus systems are scheduled
to be put into operation in Tokyo and Nligata City in fiscal 1983 (Fig.
8).
With general slack in the demand for freight transportation in the background,
trucking service operators are seeking to expand their market by meeting the
ever-diversifying needs of consigners and by also exerting to develop new demands
for transportation.
For example, an increasing number of trucking service operators attach greater
weight to parcel services and house-moving services aiming chiefly at consumers
in general, by giving full play to the merits of their door-to-door forwarding
services. Likewise, against the backdrop of a slump in warehousing business,
an increasing number of warehousing service operators are going into the so-called
"trank room service" to take custody of household assets, furs, magnetic tapes,
documents and so on to serve the conveniences of the consumer public and offices.
Over the past years trucking service operators applied scheduled trucking
service charges to parcel services, but they have set up new ingenious parcel
service rate system to better serve the interest of the consumer public. Furthermore,
they have provided services on a consumer-first principle (Fig.
9)
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