Optimal taxi market control operated with a flexible initial fare policy

Conference Proceeding - IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1335-1340

  Chang, Tang Hsien ^a   Chu, Trun Shaw ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

CVO; Flexible pricing; Stochastic optimal control; Taxi market

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRANSPORTATION CHARGES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CVO; FLEXIBLE PRICING; STOCHASTIC OPTIMAL CONTROL; TAXI MARKET;

TAXICABS;

EID: 2942682929     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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