the two following practices are good illustrations of this process in the city of gothenburg sweden a detailed working plan was finalised in and adopted as the regular system with the goal to encourage more use of public transport and socalled flexlines and bicycles and to decrease the use of the expensive municipalitypaid special transport services sts and taxis the project succeeded in that many sts passengers switched to using buses and trams again from to the number of sts trips decreased by while the journeys with flexlines increased from to