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Gershenson C, Pineda LA (2009) Why Does Public Transport Not Arrive on Time? The Pervasiveness of Equal Headway Instability. PLoS ONE 4 (10): e7292. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007292 Abstract Background The equal headway instability phenomenon is pervasive in public transport systems. This instability is characterized by an aggregation of vehicles that causes inefficient service. While equal headway instability is common, it has not been studied independently of a particular scenario. However, the phenomenon is apparent in many transport systems and can be modeled and rectified in abstraction. Methodology We present a multi-agent simulation where a default method with no restrictions always leads to unstable headways. We discuss two methods that attempt to achieve equal headways, called minimum and maximum . Since one parameter of the methods depends on the passenger density, adaptive versions—where the relevant parameter is adjusted automatically—are also put forward. Our res...

Fractal Projections:Tetrahedra by ~ hawmkoonstormbringer on deviant ART I was a few weeks ago in Budapest for a conference on artificial life . I went to the Vasarely museum, and I liked a lot his perspective games, e.g. a sphere projected on a plane and cubes projected on the sphere. I thought that you could do this recursively, so you can project tetrahedra on the faces of tetrahedra, and this is the result... This work is dedicated to the 30th birthday of my hopeful wife Nadya...