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Graph showing travel-time curves for seismic waves, with time after initial rupture on the vertical axis and distance from earthquake epicenter on the horizontal axis. Three lines represent primary (P) waves arriving fastest, secondary (S) waves arriving next, and Rayleigh and Love waves arriving slowest.

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…important service quality attribute is travel time from origin to destination. Several factors contribute to travel time. The first is the average speed of the vehicles, determined in part by their rate of acceleration and maximum speed but strongly influenced by the distance between stops and the dwell time at…
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…important service quality attribute is travel time from origin to destination. Several factors contribute to travel time. The first is the average speed of the vehicles, determined in part by their rate of acceleration and maximum speed but strongly influenced by the distance between stops and the dwell time at…
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