Improving paratransit scheduling by accounting for dynamic and stochastic variations in travel time

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1666, 1999, Pages 74-81

  Fu, Liping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELIABILITY; SCHEDULING; TRANSPORTATION ROUTES;

PARATRANSIT SCHEDULING;

BUS TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 0033285651     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1666-09     Document Type: Article

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