Demand Responsive Transport (DRT) systems are often discussed to expand public transport in rural areas, where conventional buses are often used below capacity. DRT systems can particularly improve the mobility situation for less mobile people or other people who depend on public transport and ultimately prevent them from social exclusion. This paper examines whether people who show characteristics that indicate a mobility deficit are more willing to access the DRT system EcoBus in a rural area of Germany. Using survey data from 156 respondents from households in the EcoBus service area and utilizing linear regression analysis, this study confirms that car availability harms the intended use of DRT and that physical impairment has a positive effect, as identified several times in the literature. Furthermore, the influence of age on the intended EcoBus use depends on the residence place's city size and hence on its offer of daily public services. While residents of a sub-centre of the region are significantly less willing to use the EcoBus with increasing age, there is an opposite tendency for small villages. Thus, in small inaccessible localities, the likelihood of using EcoBus increases with age, suggesting that DRT systems benefit the doubly constrained population, namely the elderly population in localities with few public services.

需求响应交通 (DRT) 系统经常被讨论以扩大农村地区的公共交通，在这些地区，传统公共汽车的使用量通常低于容量。DRT 系统尤其可以改善行动不便的人或其他依赖公共交通的人的出行状况，并最终防止他们受到社会排斥。本文研究了在德国农村地区表现出表明行动不便的特征的人是否更愿意使用 DRT 系统 EcoBus。本研究使用来自 EcoBus 服务区家庭的 156 名受访者的调查数据并利用线性回归分析，证实了汽车可用性损害了 DRT 的预期用途，而身体损伤具有积极影响，如文献中多次确定的那样。此外，年龄对 EcoBus 预期用途的影响取决于居住地的城市规模，因此取决于其提供的日常公共服务。虽然随着年龄的增长，该地区副中心的居民使用 EcoBus 的意愿显着降低，但小村庄的趋势相反。因此，在交通不便的小地方，使用 EcoBus 的可能性随着年龄的增长而增加，这表明 DRT 系统使双重受限的人口受益，即公共服务很少的地区的老年人口。