When my sister graduated for her Electroengeering degree there was a fellow who wrote his master thesis about how to efficiently schedule bus lines.
If I remember correctly one of the findings was that it would make sense to not let all buses start or finish at a bus/train station. I found that interesting. Maybe I can find it.
I don't understand;you're suggesting it would be more efficient to pickup/dropoff at random points in the city?
That would just decrease the stop-to-passenger effeciency in favor of passenger-to-walktime, but the optimization should be trying to favor the former?
If I remember correctly one of the findings was that it would make sense to not let all buses start or finish at a bus/train station. I found that interesting. Maybe I can find it.