Bunching Dynamics of Buses in a Loop
Statistical Mechanics
2021-04-30 v1
Abstract
Bus bunching is a curse of transportation systems such as buses in a loop. Here we present an analytical method to find the number of revolutions before two buses bunch in an idealised system, as a function of the initial distance and the crowdedness of the bus stops. We can also characterise the average waiting time for passengers as the buses bunch. The results give a better understanding of the phenomenon of bus bunching and design recommendations for bus loops.
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@article{arxiv.2104.13972,
title = {Bunching Dynamics of Buses in a Loop},
author = {Luca Vismara and Vee-Liem Saw and Lock Yue Chew},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.13972},
year = {2021}
}
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Submitted to 2021 IEEE the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Engineering (ICITE). 5 pages, 1 figure