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Transit serves the community at its stops or stations, which can be any thing from a massive railway terminal to an unmarked patch of dirt. We speak of “stations” for more substantial stops, especially stops served by fast services that are useful for longer trips. But all stations are stops, so for simplicity, I’ll refer to them all as “stops.”
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The exception is a bicycle that can be folded, taken aboard unfolded, or placed on a rack on the exterior of a bus. These are very popular but tend to encounter limits of capacity in bigger, more crowded transit systems.
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The term express, in particular, is prone to a more vague meaning of “faster than local service.” The US Transit Capacity and Quality of Service Manual, for example, defines express service as “service that has fewer stops and higher operating speed than regular service” (8-37). This vague use of express obscures the profound difference between all-day, two-way services (which I’ll call “limited” or “rapid”) and the typical “commuter express” bus or train. Still, you will hear term express in many contexts where it means nothing more than “relatively fast.”
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Walker, J. (2012). Touching the City: Stops and Stations. In: Human Transit. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-174-0_5
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