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Applied Sciences, 2022 Bus bunching is a common phenomenon caused by irregular bus headway, which increases the passenger waiting time, makes the passenger capacity uneven, and severely reduces the reliability of bus service.
Min Yan, Binglei Xie, Gangyan Xu
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A Real-Time Control Strategy for Bus Operation to Alleviate Bus Bunching
Sustainability, 2022 In order to alleviate bus bunching and improve the balance and punctuality rate of bus operation, a single-line real-time control strategy based on Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) was proposed. The strategy took three measures: controlling the cruising speed, dwell time, and the bus load rate to improve the stability of bus operations and to ...
Yunqiang Xue +6 more
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Mitigating Bunching with Bus-following Models and Bus-to-Bus Cooperation [PDF]
2015 IEEE 18th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2015 Bus bunching is an instability problem where buses operating on high frequency public transport lines arrive at stops in bunches. In this work, we unveil that bus-following models can be used to design bus-to-bus cooperative control strategies and mitigate bunching. The use of bus-following models avoids the explicit modelling of bus-stops, which would
Konstantinos Ampountolas, Malcolm Kring
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Holding times to maintain quasi-regular headways and reduce real-time bus bunching. [PDF]
Public Transp, 2023 Real-time control strategies deal with the day’s dynamics in bus rapid transit systems. This work focuses on minimizing the number of buses of the same line cruising head-to-tail or arriving at a stop simultaneously by implementing bus holding times at ...
Olvera-Toscano CM +3 more
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Can Bus Bunching Reduce Waiting Time? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022 Bus bunching is ostensibly regarded as a detrimental phenomenon in bus systems. We study a bus loop with two bus stops, one regular and one spike bus stop, where bunched buses can outperform staggered buses. The spike bus stop models a bus stop connected to a train or metro service, where passengers arrive in groups at periodic intervals (spikes).
Vismara, Luca +2 more
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, 2021 The conventional bus propagation process has two main shortcomings: one is bus bunching, the other is extra energy consumption by idling at signalized intersection and unexpected speed variation along the route. To overcome these problems simultaneously,
Fu, Rui +4 more
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Synchronising Bus Bunching to the Spikes in Service Demand Reduces Commuters’ Waiting Time
Complexity, 2022 Bus bunching is ostensibly regarded as a detrimental phenomenon in bus systems. We study a bus loop with two bus stops, one regular bus stop and one spike bus stop, where bunched buses can outperform staggered buses.
Luca Vismara +2 more
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Transportation Research Procedia, 2022 Bus bunching is one of the main issues encountered in bus service operations. The headway (i.e., time between two successive buses) of high-frequency services operating on congested routes can be subject to significant variability with two or more buses ...
Sassano, Mario +2 more
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An overview of solutions to the bus bunching problem in urban bus systems
Frontiers of Engineering ManagementAbstractBus bunching has been a persistent issue in urban bus system since it first appeared, and it remains a challenge not fully resolved. This phenomenon may reduce the operational efficiency of the urban bus system, which is detrimental to the operation of fast-paced public transport in cities. Fortunately, extensive research has been undertaken in
Ying Yang, Junchi Cheng, Yang Liu
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Sustainability, 2023 Due to the inherent uncertainties of the bus system, bus bunching remains a challenging problem that degrades bus service reliability and causes passenger dissatisfaction.
Jian Luo, Feng Xiao, Fan Yang, Dong Liu
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