Transport stations such as airports, ports, and railways have adopted blocked-type pathway management to process and control travel systems in a one-directional manner. However, this excludes highway transportation where large buses have great variability and mobility; thus, an instant influx of numerous buses increases risks and complicates station management. Focusing on Taipei Bus Station, t...

This paper proposes an approach to evaluate the impact of bus network changes on bus travel time. The approach relies on data obtained from buses equipped with GPS devices, which act as mobile traffic sensors. It involves three main steps: (1) analysis of the bus network to determine which road segments are frequently traversed by buses; (2) computation of bus travel time patterns by segment; (...

The primary challenge for an urban bus system is to maintain constant headways between successive buses. Most bus systems try to achieve this by adherence to a schedule; but this is undermined by the tendency of headways to collapse, so that buses travel in bunches. To counter this, we propose a new method of coördinating buses. Our method abandons the idea of a schedule and even any a priori t...

This paper studies the difference in computational power between the mesh-connected parallel computers equipped with dynamically reconfigurable bus systems and those with static ones. The mesh with separable buses (MSB) is the mesh-connected computer with dynamically reconfigurable row/column buses. The broadcasting buses of the MSB can be dynamically sectioned into smaller bus segments by prog...

This paper examines some computational aspects of di erent arrays enhanced with optical pipelined buses. The array processors with optical pipelined buses (APPB) are shown to be extremely exible, as demonstrated by their ability to e ciently simulate di erent variants of PRAMs and bounded degree networks. A model of computation is introduced, the array with recon gurable optical buses (AROB), w...

We study emulation of common graphs on a d-dimensional static multichannel mesh of optical buses. The target architecture consists of nodes arranged to a d-dimensional n-sided grid and dn d?1 optical buses. A bus is used to connect n nodes along a dimension. All nodes are connected to d buses { one per dimension. The aim in embedding graphs to such a target architecture is to minimize the numbe...