Talk:Transantiago

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[edit] Disadvantages

"Competition between companies and drivers, which had been shown to reduce wait time and transit time, will be diminished. According to the abstract of the economics paper "The War for the Fare", "We find that a typical bus passenger in Santiago waits roughly 10% longer for a bus on a fixed-wage route relative to an incentive-contract route" (Johnson, Reiley, Munoz 2005)."

The complete system, which should be fully implemented by the end of 2006, include centralized control of the frequencies (through a GPS or similar system). This implies that headways will be controled in order to avoid the "natural" vehicle bunching that occurs in the absence of a central headway control. If you read the complete paper cited, you will realise that the fixed-wage routes that the authors consider for their comparison are routes that operated without any headway control. Actually, headways are expected to be much more regular with the new system that they were before, when drivers competed trying to overpass other buses from the same line. It was very common to see two (or sometimes even three) buses from the same line running toghether competing for being the first reaching the next stop. --Agschwen 10:29, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification. I had only read the abstract. Yes, I know from experience that it is not odd to see 2 buses from the same line running practically one behind the other :). Sean 19:05, 23 January 2006 (UTC)