The journey of demand responsive transportation: Towards sustainable services

The concept of Demand Responsive Transport (DRT) describes a technology-enabled shared mobility service that has flexible operating schedule and/or provides virtual stops routes. While these on-demand services are not new, the developments in communication and tracking technology (vehicle positioning systems) have revived past decade. benefits adopting demand responsive transport for intra-community FLM travel needs widely accepted, but there is still cautious approach towards their implementation due to failure many promising schemes past. This article 1) creates an overview various introduced across world, understand factors may contributed 2) identifies progress made sustainable ventures through analysis global case studies 3) flexibility vehicle deployment technologies sphere. A bibliometric analysis, where top keywords were further categorised using VOSviewer’s default clustering algorithm, highlighted importance sustainability ventures. By ventures, it can be concluded environmentally achieved adoption electric autonomous vehicles services, by reducing mileage adjusting length route. study concludes reviewing existing research gaps regarding performance expectation, recommending policy practice implications, based on Bus-on-Demand Dubai, UAE.