No-boarding buses: agents allowed to cooperate or defect

• Main Authors: Saw, Vee-Liem, Chew, Lock Yue
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Physics; Bus bunching; No-boarding buses; Inductive reasoning and bounded rationality; Minority game; Multi-agent system; Evolutionary game theory
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/173550
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We study a bus system with a no-boarding policy, where a ‘slow’ bus may disallow passengers from boarding if it meets some criteria. When the no-boarding policy is activated, people waiting to board at the bus stop are given the choices of cooperating or defecting. The people’s heterogeneous behavio...