First of all, those objections seem very context-specific. Buses work great already in plenty of cities without those problems. It seems like you’re looking for ‘how can buses be better than BART for my specific commute’, not ‘how can buses be better than driving or ridesharing for everybody who doesn’t have another mass transit option already?’
But to your point about stopping in every block: optimizing a bus route along a major avenue in a block-based US city seems like a similar problem to elevator scheduling in a high-rise building. I wonder if similar models to ‘sky lobbies’ and destination selection could be applied to get people more efficiently to their destination.
But to your point about stopping in every block: optimizing a bus route along a major avenue in a block-based US city seems like a similar problem to elevator scheduling in a high-rise building. I wonder if similar models to ‘sky lobbies’ and destination selection could be applied to get people more efficiently to their destination.