ArrivaClick
 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter in Paddock Wood in November 2017 | |
| Parent | Arriva UK Bus |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2017 |
| Service area | Merseyside |
| Service type | Demand responsive transport |
| Hubs | Liverpool Watford |
| Fleet | 25 vehicles (Liverpool)[1] |
| Website | ArrivaClick |
ArrivaClick is a demand responsive transport service operated by Arriva UK Bus. Passengers book and pay for journeys via a smartphone app,[2] which then matches passengers traveling between similar points, calculating an ad hoc route to the destinations required.[3]
History
[edit]ArrivaClick was launched in March 2017 in Sittingbourne,[4] with Liverpool becoming the first city to be served by ArrivaClick in 2018.[5]
Operations
[edit]Speke
[edit]Arriva North West currently operate the ArrivaClick service around the Speke area [6]
Watford
[edit]Arriva Click used to operate within Watford and the surrounding area but stopped operations on 31st December 2023 due to low passenger numbers [7]
Ebbsfleet
[edit]ArrivaClick launched in the Ebbsfleet area of Kent on 30 November 2020.[8]
Former Operations
[edit]Sittingbourne
[edit]ArrivaClick in Sittingbourne was operated by Arriva Southern Counties, During November 2019 Arriva replaced the service with a fixed-route service in part of the area.[9]
Liverpool
[edit]ArrivaClick began operations in Liverpool city centre and the southern areas of the city during December 2018.[10] however in July 2020, Arriva announced that it would not be returning its operations to Liverpool after suspending services in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic[11]
Leicestershire
[edit]Arriva Midlands commenced operating ArrivaClick services in partnership with developers of the New Lubbesthorpe housing estate in Leicestershire in April 2019.[12] The Leicestershire operations were scaled back in October 2021 to operate during daytimes only [13]
Arriva Click operations in Leicester ceased on 31 July 2022 with Vectare East Midlands operating a replacement service Novus Direct and Novus Flex from 1 August.[14]
Fleet
[edit]ArrivaClick services are operated by Mercedes-Benz Sprinter minibuses. As of December 2018, it has a total of 30 vehicles.
References
[edit]- ^ "Arriva Buses Wales and Arriva North West" (PDF). UK Buses. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
- ^ "About Arriva Click". Arriva. Archived from the original on 3 July 2019. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
- ^ "ArrivaClick on-demand bus service a success". Intelligent Transport. 8 March 2018. Archived from the original on 3 July 2019. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
- ^ Price, Chris (25 April 2017). "Sittingbourne becomes first town in UK to launch Arriva luxury minibus service ordered using an app". KentOnline. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
- ^ Dunn, Connor (25 June 2018). "Arriva launching Uber for buses in Liverpool". Liverpool Echo. Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
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- ^ "Where you can go in Sittingbourne". Arriva. Archived from the original on 3 April 2019.
- ^ "Where you can go in Liverpool". Arriva UK Bus. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
- ^ Grimsditch, Lee (30 July 2020). "Arriva Click say they will not be returning to Liverpool". liverpoolecho. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
- ^ Pegden, Tom (April 2019). "Uber-style bus service being launched in new Lubbesthorpe estate". Leicester Mercury. Leicester Mercury. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
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