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In Spain most city roads with 2+ lanes per direction have a dedicated bus lane, yet you still get bus bunching and spacing adjustments anyways. - Imagine bus A
by manbitesdog 1y ago
In Spain most city roads with 2+ lanes per direction have a dedicated bus lane, yet you still get bus bunching and spacing adjustments anyways.
- Imagine bus A is followed by bus B, it's 5PM and people are leaving work simultaneously
- Bus A spends a lot of time on each stop picking passengers up
- When bus B arrives, fewer people are waiting and it tends to take less time
- Eventually, bus B catches up to bus A so A must skip stops to maintain proper spacing
As for why this doesn't annoy people: if both buses are already close together, any ETA changes from spacing adjustments are minimal, and bus A will show no destination on the front display, so no false expectations are created.
- kevindamm 1y agoexcept that bus A must often go to stops that it would skip, if any of the passengers want to get off there.
- sebstefan 1y agoIf there's bus lanes the bunching happens much more slowly. You fix it by giving slightly more time than needed to the busses for their routes on the schedule, say, 20 seconds per stop. That way if they lost some time on some stops, they fetch it back later. With the inconvenience that all the routes take longer
- whycome 1y agoCould you standardize the dwell time? Hit a max and then maintain regularity