Optimizing public transit quality and system access: The multiple-route, maximal covering/shortest-path problem

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 163-178

  Wu, Changshan ^a   Murray, Alan T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PUBLIC TRANSPORT; TRANSPORTATION MODE;

COLUMBUS [OHIO]; NORTH AMERICA; OHIO; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 17744378030     PISSN: 02658135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/b31104     Document Type: Article

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