Why does public transport not arrive on time? The pervasiveness of equal headway instability

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Gershenson, Carlos ^a   Pineda, Luis A ^a  

^a Ciudad Universitaria   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC SAFETY; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ALGORITHM; CAR DRIVING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 70449597880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007292     Document Type: Article

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