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A bus-following model with an on-line bus station

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In this paper, we developed a bus-following model with consideration of an on-line bus station based on the properties of each bus’s motion. The numerical results show that the proposed model can qualitatively describe the effects of an on-line bus station on each bus’s motion.

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This study has been supported by the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University, China (NCET-08-0038), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (70971007).

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    Tieqiao Tang, Yanfeng Shi, Yunpeng Wang & Guizhen Yu

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Tang, T., Shi, Y., Wang, Y. et al. A bus-following model with an on-line bus station. Nonlinear Dyn 70, 209–215 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-012-0445-8

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