ArrivaClick

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ArrivaClick
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Parent Arriva UK Bus
Founded2017
Service area Merseyside
Service typeDemand responsive transport
Hubs Liverpool
Watford
Fleet25 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]

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History

ArrivaClick was launched in March 2017 in Sittingbourne, [4] with Liverpool becoming the first city to be served by ArrivaClick in 2018. [5]

Operations

Speke

Arriva North West currently operate the ArrivaClick service around the Speke area [6]

Watford

Arriva Click currently operates within Watford and the surrounding area [7]

Ebbsfleet

ArrivaClick services currently operate within the Ebbsfleet area [8]

Former Operations

Sittingbourne

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

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

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

ArrivaClick services are operated by Mercedes-Benz Sprinter minibuses. As of December 2018, it has a total of 30 vehicles.

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