Abstract Despite nearly eight million rides per day on formally planned and legally sanctioned buses and subways, dollar vans provide service that shadow some of the busiest bus lines in Brooklyn and Queens. Dollar vans are an informal transport service that occupy an awkward liminal space between legal and illegal—some are licensed and some are not, but all dollar vans operate illegally. It is this legal confusion that renders them informal. It is because of this informality that dollar van operators and drivers can also adapt their routes and service as they deem necessary. This “generative” mode of planning introduces a second dimension of informality; however, I argue that dollar van operators follow a similar logic as formal transportation operators when planning service. I demonstrate this by examining the case of a dollar van operator in Brooklyn developing a new route. I juxtapose his method with that of bus planners from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to show how both groups of planners rely on prompts they encounter, be it anecdotal stories about West Indians in Flatbush moving away or an angry letter from a state legislator, rather than a systematic approach that is taught in classrooms. By examining the planning of a new dollar van route in Brooklyn, I trace the operator's planning process and compare his data against quantitative datasets to show that his generative planning process is supported by the quantitative data and deepens its meaning when combined with his local knowledge. Seen in this light, it is clear that the distance between informal and formal transit is artificial rather than inherent.

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新美元货车路线剖析：纽约市的非正式交通和规划

摘要 尽管每天有近 800 万人次乘坐正式规划和合法批准的公共汽车和地铁，但美元货车提供的服务掩盖了布鲁克林和皇后区一些最繁忙的公交线路。美元货车是一种非正式的运输服务，在合法和非法之间占据了一个尴尬的界限空间——有些有执照，有些没有，但所有的美元货车都是非法经营的。正是这种法律混淆使它们变得非正式。正是由于这种非正式性，美元货车运营商和司机也可以在他们认为必要的时候调整他们的路线和服务。这种“生成式”规划模式引入了非正式性的第二个维度；然而，我认为美元货车运营商在规划服务时遵循与正式运输运营商类似的逻辑。我通过检查布鲁克林的一家美元货车运营商开发新路线的案例来证明这一点。我将他的方法与大都会交通管理局 (MTA) 的公交车规划人员的方法并列，以展示这两组规划人员如何依赖他们遇到的提示，无论是关于弗拉特布什的西印度人搬走的轶事故事，还是来自州立法者的愤怒信件，而不是在课堂上教授的系统方法。通过检查布鲁克林一条新的美元面包车路线的规划，我追溯了运营商的规划过程并将他的数据与定量数据集进行比较，以表明他的生成式规划过程得到了定量数据的支持，并在结合他的本地知识时加深了其意义。从这个角度看，