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The biggest win is probably dynamic routing, just select your pickup-point and a destination and a bus will get automatically routed. You'd never be forced to w
by JasonADrury 10mo ago
The biggest win is probably dynamic routing, just select your pickup-point and a destination and a bus will get automatically routed. You'd never be forced to waste time driving past a stop for which there's no customer demand on that particular trip.
- cogman10 10mo agoDoesn't work (IMO). Very functional mass transit lives and dies on predictability. Having dynamic routing would be the antithesis to that. Maybe your trip will take 20 minutes, maybe it'll be 1 hour. It'd be impossible to tell which one it'll be because the route changes based on when you request and who else has requested. If you wanted something like dynamic routing, then what you'd do is have it as a supplement to standard routing. Effectively taxi to the nearest bus stop.
- JasonADrury 10mo agoFor the same amount of trips, this system could reliably allow shorter and more frequent trips than previously possible. Given that the system would work better, it would need to scale up to meet increased demand. There's absolutely no reason for dynamic routing to not reliably be faster than or as fast as static routes.