Mathematics 'the key' to solving transport woes: "Imagine buses turning up every five minutes, and schedules that could deliver passengers to just about anywhere across the city. Impossible? Laughably expensive?
Professor Mark Wallace from the Monash University's Faculty of Information Technology says it's a goer. Mathematics, not massive infrastructure spending, is the key.
'You'd need twice as many buses, not 10 times as most people might imagine,' he says.
Some of the initiatives to make it work include adaptive scheduling (where the local schedule is flexible, and responds to direct consumer demand); more bus lanes; and, a system where local bus networks talk to one another and have coordinated changeover stations, so you have more efficient use of the limited bus numbers, which works against traffic congestion."
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