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by jiofih 2418 days ago
If you don’t plan at all, you’ll have an average wait time of 7 minutes. How bad is that?
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Average wait time of 7 minutes if the trains follow the schedule exactly and don't bunch.

If things are allowed to drift randomly, you end up approximating the exponential distribution - which has an average wait time of 15 minutes for 4 trains/hour.