Talk:Bus bunching

message: I was always under the impression that busses travelled in packs to avoid being eaten by busbears.
mkehrt 15:22, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Bus Bears

message: Alfred Hitchcock used bus bunching for suspense in the escape sequences of Torn Curtain. --84.20.17.84 (talk) 16:05, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Torn Curtain 

message: The classical bus bunching theory is an example of chaos theory.
It is?  It doesn't sound like it to me.  Chaos theory is about deterministic systems that may appear random. 68.239.78.86 (talk) 04:17, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chaos Theory 

message: Here are some suggested citations for this article.  Note that some citations assert bus bunching does occur and that it is a serious problem (underlined = online papers from my own access and may be large PDFs) in order of year published:
# On Controlling Randomness in Transit Operations by Arnold Barnett, TRANSPORTATION SCIENCE, Vol. 8, No. 2, May 1974
# Control of Pairing of Vehicles on a Public Transportation Route, Two Vehicles, One Control Point by G. F. Newell, TRANSPORTATION SCIENCE, Vol. 8, No. 3, August 1974
# A model for investigating the effects of service frequency and reliability on bus passenger waiting times by M. A. Turnquist, 1978, Transportation Research Record Volume 663 pps 70–73.
# Service Reliability Impacts of Computer-Aided Dispatching and Automatic Vehicle Location Technology: A Tri-Met Case Study by James G. Strathman et al, December 1999, Center for Urban Studies, College of Urban and Public Affairs, Portland State University
# The effects of network structure on reliability of transit service by M. A. Turnquist and L. A. Bowman, 1980, Transportation Research, 14B
# Bibliography of literature on transit system reliability by Balbir S. Dhillon, 1981, Engineering Management Program, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
#  Methods for maintaining transit service  regularity by M. D. Abkowitz  and I. Engelstein, 1984, Transportation Research Record 961
# TIME POINT-LEVEL ANALYSIS OF TRANSIT SERVICE RELIABILITY AND PASSENGER DEMAND (RTF File) by T.J. Kimpel, 2001, PhD dissertation, Portland State University
# Evaluation of transit operations: data applications of Tri-Met’s automated Bus Dispatching System by JAMES G. STRATHMAN et al, Transportation 29: 321–345, 2002
# Headway Deviation Effects on Bus Passenger Loads: Analysis of Tri-Met’s Archived AVL-APC Data by James G. Strathman and Thomas J. Kimpel , January 2003, Center for Urban Studies, College of Urban and Public Affairs, Portland State University
# Optimal Slack Time for Schedule-Based Transit Operations by Jiamin Zhao et al, TRANSPORTATION SCIENCE, Vol. 40, No. 4, November 2006
# An Investigation of Bus Headway Regularity and Service Performance in Chicago Bus Transit System by Minyan Ruan and Jie Lin, paper to the 2008 Transport Chicago Conference, Chicago, USA
# An Approach to Reducing Bus Bunching by J.M. Pilachowski, 2009, UCTC Dissertation No. 165, University of California Transportation Center, University of California, Berkeley
# A headway-based approach to eliminate bus bunching: Systematic analysis  and comparisons by Carlos F. Daganzo, Transportation Research Part B 43 (2009) 913–921
# Reducing bunching with bus-to-bus cooperation by Carlos F. Daganzo and Josh Pilachowski, December 2009, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Can intersted editors review a comment on which of these has merit for inclusion ? Bigglesjames (talk) 01:22, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested Citations 

message: When I was in London years ago (in the 70's), there was a very simple corrective measure: the second bus would just (briskly) pass before the first.
In fact it's in repeatedly observing these overtakings that I became aware of the bunching phenomenon itself (i. e. understood that, and why, a late bus tends to get later and later, while the next tends to get earlier and earlier, as explained in the section "Theory").
It's strange that overtaking is not mentioned among the corrective measures. I can't belieeve it's no longer allowed or possible.
Of course, it's only possible with buses, not with trolleybuses or metro and train.
I don't dare to edit the Wikipedia text myself, because I don't live in London or a similar city and because I don't speak English natively.
--Virda (talk) 13:05, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corrective measures