Metamodels for estimating waterway delays through series of queues

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-19

  Dai, Melody D M ^a   Schonfeld, Paul ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHODOLOGY; MODELLING APPROACH; PLANNING METHOD; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORT PLANNING; WATERWAY TRANSPORT;

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; QUEUEING THEORY; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

ARRIVAL DISTRIBUTIONS; AVERAGE WAITING TIME; DEPARTURE DISTRIBUTIONS; INTERDEPARTURE TIMES; METAMODELING METHOD;

WATERWAY TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 0031594054     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0191-2615(97)00003-9     Document Type: Article

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