Have you ever waited for your bus at a bus stop for a very long time—only to be greeted by two or more buses arriving together? This phenomenon, known as “bus bunching,” is a problem that bus transit ...

At MIT, bright young engineers are still asked to tackle devilish math problems on their way to a degree. But officials at Boston Public Schools (BPS) are hoping they can turn their attention to the ...

The inside of a bus may not seem like the ideal place to rekindle your interest in math, but a group of mathematicians is betting it will. Last month, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute of ...