Great article. And here's some academic research that models the dynamics of bus bunching and proposes a decentralized control scheme to minimize a combination

Great article. And here's some academic research that models the dynamics of bus bunching and proposes a decentralized control scheme to minimize a combination of passenger wait time and travel time: http://www.its.berkeley.edu/publications/UCB/2011/VWP/UCB-ITS-VWP-2011-1.pdf http://www.its.berkeley.edu/publications/UCB/2011/VWP/UCB-IT... ...And here's a product we created to commercialize this research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQXZybHO52A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQXZybHO52A Full disclosure: I am a co-founder along with the authors of the above paper of Via Analytics: v-a.io