Bunching Dynamics of Buses in a Loop

2021/04/27 by Luca Vismara, Vismara, Luca, Vee-Liem Saw +3
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · Social Sciences · #Traffic control and management #Transportation Planning and Optimization #Transportation and Mobility Innovations #cond-mat.stat-mech

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2104.13972

Submitted to 2021 IEEE the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Engineering (ICITE). 5 pages, 1 figure

arxiv created 2021/04/27 · arxiv updated 2021/04/30

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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