Effective Communication

In the article “Preventing ‘Bus Bunching’ with Smart Phone Application Implementation”, Sprogis (n.d.) claims that implementing a smartphone application for bus drivers will help shorten waiting times and prevent overcrowding. Sprogis analyses the data of bus crowds using AnyLogic's GIS features to create a solution called "Equilibrium" based on the distance between buses. By doing so buses will make refined adjustments to the route by altering its speed and maintaining the ideal headway. Sprogis (n.d.) believes that this helps to make the number of riders in each bus more consistent and develop more predictable waiting times. Eventually, “eliminating excessively long waiting times and dampens overcrowding of buses”. While I support the idea of tackling issues on bus bunching using smartphones, other technological applications have also successfully resolved bus bunching. Firstly, the usage of a smartphone application to tackle bus bunching has been successfully tested.

In the article “Preventing ‘Bus Bunching’ with Smart Phone Application Implementation”, Sprogis (n.d.) claims that implementing a smartphone application for bus drivers will help shorten waiting times and prevent overcrowding. Sprogis analyses the data of bus crowds using AnyLogic's GIS features to create a solution called "Equilibrium" based on the distance between buses. By doing so buses will make refined adjustments to the route by altering its speed and maintaining the ideal headway. Sprogis (n.d.) believes that this helps to make the riders in each bus more consistent and develop more predictable waiting times. Eventually, “eliminating excessively long waiting times and dampens overcrowding of buses”.  While I support Sprogis’s idea to tackle problems on bus bunching using smartphones. I feel that we can consider other technological applications that might better aid in resolving bus bunching. Firstly, usage of smartphone application to tackle bus bunching has been