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51 Conclusions Headway-based operation is a way of operating a bus route where the main objective is to keep buses spaced at equal time intervals (e.g., every 10 minutes)
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52 Intelligent Transportation Systems in Headway-Based Bus Service • Stop skipping: buses skip one or more stops to make up time. Many research papers combine holding (to slow down)
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Conclusions 53 • Headway variability, which can be measured in different ways such as service regularity or the standard deviation of headway. • Bus travel time variability, which can be measured in different ways such as the 90th percentile of cycle time.
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54 Intelligent Transportation Systems in Headway-Based Bus Service • TheBus used the flexibility of its headway-based system to adjust service levels based on observed ridership and passenger loads. • Capital Metro and LA Metro had reverted to a Sunday schedule at the time of their interviews.
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