A study of crowding effects at the Hong Kong light rail transit stations

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 401-415

  Lam, William H K ^a   Cheung, Chung Yu ^a   Lam, C F ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Crowding effects; Light rail transit

Indexed keywords

LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CROWDING EFFECTS;

RAILROAD STATIONS;

LIGHT RAIL SYSTEM; MODELING; PLANNING METHOD; RAILWAY TRANSPORT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

EID: 0032790886     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-8564(98)00050-0     Document Type: Article

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