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arXiv cs.AI · 2026-08-12 00:00 UTC
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Mitigating Bus Bunching with Reinforcement Learning Enhanced by Semantic Stop Embedding

arXiv:2608.10207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bus bunching degrades service regularity and increases passenger waiting in high-frequency transit. Existing reinforcement-learning-based holding controllers primarily rely on instantaneous operational variables or route-specific stop identifiers, which provide limited information about the functional and operational context of individual stops and constrain policy reuse across routes. This study introduces an LLM-assisted semantic stop representation for event-driven bus holding control. An LLM is used offline to transform heterogeneous stop inf

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RL with semantic stop embeddings targets real transit reliability gains, showing how richer representations can make city-scale control systems more deployable.

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