TUBS is most useful for showing relationships between complex rhythms, such as polyrhythms, that would be difficult to see in traditional musical notation.
[1] However, Joseon composer Bak Yeon(박연)'s invention of similar but unrelated notation jeongganbo(정간보, image) to notate Korean court music dates back to middle of the 15th century.
Below is an example of an adapted TUBS score depicting a percussion pattern for multiple instruments.
One benefit with the TUBS system is that it clearly relates which drum is to be struck (as the symbol will be solid, hollow, etc.
More importantly, the symbol used inside of each Time Unit Box relates how the drum is to be struck (open tone, slap, bass, rim-shot, etc.)