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Why rail is sexy
I have a theory that I don’t think is going to be very well liked: Rail transit is as popular as it is in large part because it tends to have simplified diagrammatic maps. People in Cincinnati tend to...
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On Coverage vs. Expedience, or why the #24 is slow
By looking at the routing of a transit line, one can with a little study discern the motives of it’s establishment. I’ll take SORTA’s #24 as an example. The #24 is a relatively infrequent line, but one...
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‘BRT’– What is it?
I’ve heard a lot of talk about Bus Rapid Transit(BRT) lately, and I’m feeling the need to start unpacking some of it. Just what is BRT? I suspect many people have a fairly vague idea, but fortunately,...
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When you’re preparing to disembark the bus, please look ahead to your stop before the bus reaches it. Does it look like there people about to get on? If so, now is the time to leave through the back...
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Predicting a distribution of bus tardiness
I’m about to start digging into various real-time data feeds for American (bus) transit systems. For the most part right now I’m interested in finding a simple, average distribution of...
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