Bunching and delay in bus-route system with a couple of recurrent buses

Takashi Nagatani

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2002, vol. 305, issue 3, 629-639

Abstract: We study the behavior of a couple of recurrent buses on a circular route with many bus stops. The single bus model is extended to a bus-route system with a couple of recurrent buses. It is found that the conventional schedule-time phase bifurcates into three new phases: bunching, regular, and oscillatory phases. The phase diagram is presented for the dynamical transition. It is shown that the dynamical transition depends on the velocity-amplification factor and number of bus stops.

Keywords: Phase transition; Nonlinear map; Bus delay; Bunching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378437101005775
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only. Journal offers the option of making the article available online on Science direct for a fee of $3,000

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:305:y:2002:i:3:p:629-639

DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(01)00577-5

Access Statistics for this article

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications is currently edited by K. A. Dawson, J. O. Indekeu, H.E. Stanley and C. Tsallis

More articles in Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().