Since its inception in 2005, ARTA has focused largely on increasing PT use in order to reduce peak car travel and congestion in the region That is, it has a largely commuter focus. Bus services are mostly radial to the central business district (CBD), although Auckland has a relatively dispersed workforce, and only 15 per- cent of employment in Auckland is within the CBD, as opposed to 19 percent in Christchurch and 22 percent in Wellington (O’Fallon, Sullivan, and Hensher 2004). The overall mode share figures published in a recent ARC Mode Split Research Study show great regional variation; for example, 48 percent of morning peak trav- elers into the CBD used PT in 2009, as compared to only 9 percent venturing to Manukau in south Auckland (Auckland Transport Blog 2010).