Bus bunching as a synchronisation phenomenon

• Main Authors: Pang, Ian Yi En, Chew, Lock Yue, Saw, Vee-Liem, Chung, Ning Ning, Quek, Wei Liang
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Bus Bunching; Science::Physics; Kuramoto Model
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/106548; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48949
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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 mod...