Merging bus routes in Hong Kong's central business district: Analysis and models

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 918-935

  Hwe, Siu Kei ^a   Cheung, Raymond K ^a   Wan, Yat wah ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Central business district; Merging bus routes; Non linear integer programming

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS; BUS TRANSPORTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING;

CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT (CBD); MERGING BUS ROUTES;

TRANSPORTATION ROUTES;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROUTING; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; URBAN TRANSPORT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONG KONG;

EID: 33745960266     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2006.03.005     Document Type: Article

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