Improving public transportation systems with self-organization: A headway-based model and regulation of passenger alighting and boarding.

The equal headway instability-the fact that a configuration with regular time intervals between vehicles tends to be volatile-is a common regulation problem in public transportation systems. An unsatisfactory regulation results in low efficiency and possible collapses of the service. Computational s...

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Main Authors: Gustavo Carreón, Carlos Gershenson, Luis A Pineda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5747448?pdf=render