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... 4 Background In the past few decades, many transit agencies in North America and elsewhere have explored operating bus routes by headway instead of schedule. In headway-based operation, the schedule is removed (or at least de-emphasized)
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... Introduction 5   pencil-and-paper data collection tasks but later found real-time uses. Still, many ITS technologies are not used to their full potential.
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... 6 Intelligent Transportation Systems in Headway-Based Bus Service Literature Review First, a review of relevant literature was conducted to identify previous research on the synthesis topics. The literature review, contained in Chapter 2, has been organized into two main sections: • The first section covers HBS, providing a general introduction, discussing common challenges, and discussing operational strategies that have been proposed by researchers and/or implemented in practice.
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... Introduction 7   The survey was divided into seven sections: • Introduction and screener questions. • Questions for transit agencies that do not implement HBS.

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