Distributed architecture for real-time coordination of bus holdng in transit networks

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 43-51

  Zhao, Jiamin ^a   Bukkapatnam, Satish ^a   Dossouky, Maged M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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BUS TRANSPORT;

EID: 1642570435     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2003.809769     Document Type: Article

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