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Fun fact: ship scheduling in Rotterdam is a similar exercise in politics. I think the NextLogic centralized barge scheduling initiative started back in 2012 or
by superice 6y ago
Fun fact: ship scheduling in Rotterdam is a similar exercise in politics. I think the NextLogic centralized barge scheduling initiative started back in 2012 or so (https://www.nextlogic.nl/en/ https://www.nextlogic.nl/en/) and is only running in production for a handful of terminals and barge operators since the start of this year. Centralized planning is a bitch of a problem, not for technical reasons, but for political ones. I could go on and on about the various reasons parties did not want to participate, even though in principle everybody agrees that a centralized planning will be more efficient than every terminal doing it on their own.
- ihaveajob 6y agoSounds like transit scheduling in the SF Bay Area. I forgot how many times I've seen a Caltrain depart just as a matching BART train was arriving in the station, just because they're separate agencies who technically coordinate some schedules, but in practice don't have any system constraints to enforce synchronized transfers.
- wdb 6y agoWhen my sister graduated for her Electroengeering degree there was a fellow who wrote his master thesis about how to efficiently schedule bus lines. If I remember correctly one of the findings was that it would make sense to not let all buses start or finish at a bus/train station. I found that interesting. Maybe I can find it.
- setr 6y agoI don't understand;you're suggesting it would be more efficient to pickup/dropoff at random points in the city? That would just decrease the stop-to-passenger effeciency in favor of passenger-to-walktime, but the optimization should be trying to favor the former?