It’s the Murphy’s Law of buses. Yours runs late because of traffic. When it arrives, lots of folks pile in. Then another bus pulls up just a few seconds later to an empty stop.
Now, a team of researchers and students at Georgia Tech have come up with a system they say fixes the problem known as “Bus Bunching.”
“The schedule is always wrong,” opines Georgia Tech grad student Blake Thornberry, who stands near the campus student center.
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