Bus use in rural areas : people's time preference. Paper presented at the International Conference on Transport's Role in Social Well-being, Noordwijk, April 1983.

In rural areas the service level is currently determined by means of a normative allocation rule. Using this rule, which was introduced in 1979, the service frequency on a bus route is based on the actual demand and the carrying capacity of the vehicle.This paper presents a temporal criterion as an adequate fundamental support to show that mobility patterns of people and the degree to which the actual travel behaviour reflects their needs can show an alternative for the rule.