Washington, D.C.'s DOT has adopted TransitIQ, a straightforward tracking technology, to help dispatchers keep buses on schedule.
Washington D.C.'s Circulator bus line has trouble with bus bunching. "It's when buses – due to traffic, delays in loading and unloading passengers, or variations in driver speed – cause other buses from the same route to be unevenly spaced. Instead of arriving every 10 minutes, multiple buses from the same route arrive at the same time and then another bus doesn't come for 30 minutes or more."
TransitIQ data is publicly available on the cloud via mobile app. "For Union Station – which has been a problem area for bus bunching – DDOT found that by adding a bus to the line three stops closer to Union Station, the buses were able to make it through traffic and continue to hit the 10-minute mark every time for the rest of their routes."
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