Therefore, these buses do not constitute competitions with Shinkansen lines for routes connecting stations on Shinkansen lines, but indirectly get customers who could use Shinkansen lines (however, because there are too many differences between their fares and between the traveling times, it can be said that the trains or buses are selectively used based on customers' needs, rather than competing with each other directly).
このため、新幹線の駅を結ぶ競合でなくても新幹線の客を奪っているのである（ただ、運賃と所要時間が違いすぎるため、直接的な新幹線との競合というよりは、利用客のニーズの違いで使い分けられている感が大きい）。