Comparing static and dynamic threshold based control strategies

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 32A, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 607-620

  Rossetti, Manuel D ^a   Turitto, Timothy ^b  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b American Management Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUS TRANSPORT; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

BUS TRANSPORTATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MASS TRANSPORTATION; TRANSPORTATION ROUTES;

DYNAMIC ROUTE CONTROL; HEADWAY VARIATION; THRESHOLD BASED CONTROL; TRANSIT SIMULATION;

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 0032219161     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-8564(98)00019-6     Document Type: Article

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