Ex ante heuristic measures of schedule reliability

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 473-494

  Carey, Malachy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Reliability measures; Trains; Transport planning

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC METHODS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; SCHEDULING; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

PUBLIC TRANSPORT SERVICES;

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

METHODOLOGY; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; RAILWAY TRANSPORT; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

EID: 0032885173     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-2615(99)00002-8     Document Type: Article

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