By modulating traffic-signal prioritization, cities may be able to solve bus bunching as well.
The bunching before this mark suggests that firms that might have grown bigger chose to stay small.
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Hurricane Sandy will probably add to this downward momentum by effectively bunching these big lock-up releases closer together.
Increasingly, they survive only by bunching together in villages or suburbs that are large enough to offer some security.
Many cities are plagued by bus bunching at peak hours: one bus stops frequently to pick up and drop off passengers, slowing its progress.
Careful debt-management strategies that avoid short-term borrowing or the bunching of maturities and hedge against interest-rate or exchange-rate swings should come high on the agenda.
Transportation officials equipped with increasingly sophisticated technology are considering ways they can use traffic signal-prioritization not just to speed the progress of buses, but to solve bus bunching.
MediaNews has a genius for bunching small suburban papers around metro areas, skimming off advertising revenue that would otherwise have gone to the big paper in the city.
In an advanced system, transit system operators would be able to notice bus bunching conditions before the buses meet, give green lights to the front bus and alert riders to the presence of emptier buses following the first.
Using a combination of junk bond debt and bank financing, Singleton and his 87-year-old partner, Richard Scudder, are masters at bunching smallish suburban and hick-town papers around metro areas and skimming off advertising revenue that would otherwise go to the big paper in the city.
She notes that in pictures of Thomson in the playoffs, there is some odd bunching of the fabric around the number 3 on the back. (He wore number 23 for the Giants.) Rousseau says that the severe process used to dry-clean jerseys at the time often caused odd distortions at the point where the numbers met the uniforms.
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