Coast control for mass rapid transit railways with searching methods

IEE Proceedings: Electric Power Applications

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 365-375

  Wong, K K ^a   Ho, T K ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC RAILROADS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GRADIENT METHODS; HEURISTIC METHODS; MASS TRANSPORTATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; RAILROAD TRACKS; TRACTION MOTORS;

COASTING CONTROL; FIBONACCI SEARCH; HEURISTIC SEARCHING METHODS; INTERSTATION RUN TIMES; MASS RAPID TRANSIT RAILWAYS; REAL TIME CONTROL;

RAPID TRANSIT;

EID: 2442465598     PISSN: 13502352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-epa:20040346     Document Type: Article

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