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SUBMITTER: Saw VL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6499774 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Saw Vee-Liem VL Chung Ning Ning NN Quek Wei Liang WL Pang Yi En Ian YEI Chew Lock Yue LY
Scientific reports 20190503 1
Bus bunching is a perennial phenomenon that not only diminishes the efficiency of a bus system, but also prevents transit authorities from keeping buses on schedule. We present a physical theory of buses serving a loop of bus stops as a ring of coupled self-oscillators, analogous to the Kuramoto model. Sustained bunching is a repercussion of the process of phase synchronisation whereby the phases of the oscillators are locked to each other. This emerges when demand exceeds a critical threshold. ...[more]