The real-time stop-skipping problem

Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 91-109

  Sun, Aichong ^a   Hickman, Mark ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic Vehicle Location Systems; Transit Operations control; Transit Stop Skipping; Transit Vehicle Expressing

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MASS TRANSPORTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PUBLIC POLICY; RAILROAD STATIONS; TRAFFIC SIGNALS;

AUTOMATIC VEHICLE LOCATION SYSTEMS; TRANSIT OPERATIONS CONTROL; TRANSIT STOP-SKIPPING; TRANSIT VEHICLE EXPRESSING;

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 23244456101     PISSN: 15472450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15472450590934642     Document Type: Article

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