edwin_m
Veteran Member
Interesting article on why services bunch - you don't need to understand the maths to get the general gist:
https://pedestrianobservations.com/2018/08/18/the-dynamics-of-bus-bunching/
https://pedestrianobservations.com/2018/08/18/the-dynamics-of-bus-bunching/
The upshot of the mathematical model in this post is that several already-understood reforms can seriously reduce bus bunching: speeding up boarding through prepayment and all-door boarding, using bigger buses with many doors on the busiest routes, implementing signal priority and enforcing bus lanes better, and improving dispatching to tell bus drivers to maintain even headways leaving each terminus.