Unbunching buses

Eric Jaffe, writing at The Atlantic Cities:

In an upcoming issue of Transportation Research Part B, John Bartholdi III and Donald Eisenstein propose a method of bus coordination that abandons the concept of tightly-managed headways or schedules. Without the restriction of meeting pre-specified targets, drivers instead follow the flow of traffic, and natural headways emerge over time. The result is a “self-equalizing” system with less bunching and more reliability.

Traffic is chaotic, ergo an entropic bus schedule is a better fit.

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