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How to Improve Bus Service

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  • Daganzo, Carlos F

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Bus schedules cannot be easily maintained on busy lines with short headways: Experience shows that buses offering this type of service usually arrive irregularly at their stops, often in bunches. Although transit agencies build slack into their schedules to alleviate this problem, their attempts often fail because practical amounts of slack cannot prevent large localized disruptions from spreading system-wide. This paper describes a more resilient control scheme that overcomes this problem. The method also produces even headways with less slack than the conventional approach. Thus, buses can run faster and be more productive.

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  • Daganzo, Carlos F, 2008. "How to Improve Bus Service," Institute of Transportation Studies, Research Reports, Working Papers, Proceedings qt6m707144, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley.
    • Handle: RePEc:cdl:itsrrp:qt6m707144
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    1. Jariyasunant, Jerald & Work, Daniel B. & Kerkez, Branko & Sengupta, Raja & Glaser, Steven & Bayen, Alexandre, 2011. "Mobile Transit Trip Planning with Real-Time Data," University of California Transportation Center, Working Papers qt51t364vz, University of California Transportation Center.

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