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This publication contains most of the proceedings of a seminar on "Theoretical Models for Fixed Scheduled and Demand Actuated Bus Routing in Urban Areas" held in May 1973. The eleven technical papers presented may be divided into three broad categories, three papers dealing with general transportation planning, three papers which are essentially surveys of various sections of the literature on public transportation and, five papers on the optimization and evaluation of bus systems. Two papers by are based on research activities of the TRANSLOK group. These deal with general transportation and location planning. Another paper contributed by Hansen is a critical comparison of behavioral and nonbehavioral transportation models. The relevance of these three papers to the study of bus systems is at best tenuous. One paper gives a concise description of the research carried out in Great Britain on bus systems. Another papers presents a discussion with examples on the tradeoffs between the power and limitations of mathematical models of public transit.