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Letter: Wait or walk?

Published 13 February 2008

From Phil Birkin

Mathematicians may have tackled the problem of deciding whether to wait for a bus or to walk (26 January, p 18) but in Nottingham, among other places, it has been solved by computer science and engineering. At each stop an electronic display lists the estimated arrival time of buses on each route serving the stop.

Ilkeston, Derbyshire, UK

Issue no. 2643 published 16 February 2008

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