Among all the impersonal and standardized modes of transportation that serve cities around the world today, a few are unique and operate, unlike any others. The jeepney of Manila undoubtedly fall in the latter category, although even they are continuously in danger of being phased out.
An examination of this mode may be of interest, not only because of the visual attractiveness of the vehicles and their dominant role in forming the character of one of the important cities in Asia, but also because the jeepney system has certain operational features that satisfy many universal intra-city transportation requirements better than most other available modes. Indeed, it is a ready-made, demand-activated mass transportation system--for which the search continues in the industrialized countries.