Prospects for computer aided railway scheduling: Perspectives from users and parallels from mass transit

Transportation Planning and Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 303-321

  Watson, Robert ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mass transit; Optimization; Railways; Scheduling; Specification

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING; MASS TRANSPORTATION; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE; PRIVATIZATION; SCHEDULING;

RAILWAY SCHEDULING;

RAILROADS;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; RAILWAY TRANSPORT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0034443665     PISSN: 03081060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03081060008717655     Document Type: Article

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