This study describes and analyses the new form of local public transport 'Byabussen' (The village bus) in the municipality of Ystad in south of Sweden, with respect to the concept of integration. This integration of public transport in rural areas is a solution, which often accompanied by great expectations, aims at increasing efficiency and usage of passenger transport resources by looking into all forms of existing transport services and come to grips with it as a whole.

In the review, this system was built up from using resources that were used for compulsory school buses, opening those services for public use but with the demand that passengers except for school pupils had to phone ahead to order any particular service. Hence, these services were proposed as feeder services to communities with compulsory public schools. If a passenger wanted to travel to other places, i e the town of Ystad or other cities and towns such as Malmö (regional centre), Tomelilla or Simrishamn (neighbouring towns), this would be no problem since all the communities with such schools had regional bus or train services.

The 'Byabussen' started in September 2002, but not quite according to the outlines of the preceding review. As at 2004, the 'Byabussen' exists as a form of developed, extended local transport service, however parallel public transport services that were to be integrated are unchanged – school bus services, special transport service for disabled and elderly, and health care transport.