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Public auto transport, public transportation, public transit or mass transit comprises all transport systems in which the passengers do not tour in their own vehicles. While it is usually taken to include rail and bus services, wider definitions will include scheduled airline services, ferries, taxicab services etc. - any system that transports members of the universal public. A further restriction that is sometimes practical is that it must take place in shared vehicles that would exclude taxis that are not shared-ride taxis.

Types of Public auto transport

Motor transport:
Public auto transport is the most important form of motor transport on Earth. Whilst in the Western World private cars rule, in poor countries (which represent the greater part of human population) most people cannot pay for a private car (or in dense urban areas the cost for parking), so walking, (motor)cycling or public auto transport are frequently the only options, with only the latter being viable for better distances. This frequently takes the form of mini-buses (jitneys) that might go after fixed routes but are typically flexible, including the option of taxi-style door-to-door transportation.

Public auto transport could be faster than other modes of journey where a separate transportation is used and thus much higher speeds are possible than are allowable on roads. Prime examples are in cities where road congestion can be avoided (metro), and for long coldness travel (trains). On roads this is also likely if the public auto transportation has its own separate lanes. However, in reality the lanes are frequently shared, in which case public transport on roads is typically slower due to the (frequent) stops and changeovers. Additionally, public auto transport system might be poorly developed and thus may take up to two or may even three times longer than an equivalent trip in a private vehicle.

Increased road traffic overcrowding and improved transit systems are reducing or eliminate this difference in many areas, and public auto transport use rises sharply with population density. Eventually, if all transport were public (in the sense of shared), additional people per vehicle would mean fewer vehicles on the roads, thus plummeting and perhaps even eliminating traffic jams. Additionally, it will be easier to centrally coordinate the flow of traffic with phased traffic lights, eliminating the typically recurrent stops at traffic lights and the absence of parked cars will even create space for extra lanes. Thus, public auto transportation is potentially much earlier than private transportation, though this is seldom the case in practice. Cases where (individually faster) private transport competes against (collectively faster) public transport in thickly populated areas are manifestations of the multiple prisoners’ dilemma problem.

The term rapid auto transportation refers to fast public transport in and around cities, such as metro systems (metropolitan rail). The difference between (national) rail, metro and tram is occasionally blurred, such as in Amsterdam and the wider Ramstad area, where trains often run once every 15 minutes, thus taking on the role of a metro, the metro is only partly underground and the so-called light rail is essentially a tram that runs on metro lines.