An innovation in the early 1970s was its Telebus service, which used a telephone/radio dispatching system to send buses to individual homes.

In addition, Telebus services, where passengers can request to be picked up or dropped off from home, also operate in the area.

The term Paratransit has been used as a term for Telebus service.

Telebus, which is based on software by Teleride Corporation, was officially launched in February 1986.

A number of public Telebus services operate in the outer suburbs of Melbourne, Australia.

The city of Regina in Canada was one of the early pioneers of Telebus services.

A private operator has been successfully operating an expanding Telebus service for 18 years in the Dandenong foothills outside Melbourne.

Telebus Area 4 Croydon - Mooroolbark (Monday to Saturday).

A Telebus , Dial-a-bus , or Dial-a-ride service is a bus service that operates in a mode partway between a normal scheduled bus service and a taxi.

But possibly because paratransit sounds to the uninitiated like a service for the disabled, other terms such as Telebus have become more popular, particularly for services not primarily intended to service disabled passengers.