Making it truly better by bus

Auckland commuters know the frustration well: You’re waiting for a bus, and the electronic board shows it’s three minutes away. Ten minutes later, you’re still standing there, wondering what’s going on. Or the board may say a bus is 10 minutes away – but it suddenly turns up when you’re not paying attention.

Department of Statistics doctoral student Tom Elliott, pictured, also knows that irritation well – he was once a regular bus user – and his PhD research aims to come up with a model that leads to better predictions. Read the full story here.