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Published online 30 September 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030929-2

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There's chaos on the buses

Model reveals why shuttles come all at once or not at all.

You wait half an hour for an airport shuttle bus, then two show up at once. It's not bad planning, it's chaos, says Japanese researcher Takashi Nagatani of Shizuoka University.

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