Performance of automatic passenger counters in the ventura/lompoc smart card demonstration project

ITS Journal: Intelligent Transportation Systems Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 131-150

  Moore II, James E ^a   Giuliano, Genevieve ^a   March, Jeremy G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic Identification Systems; Automatic Passenger Counters; Buses; Field oerational tests; Public transportation; Transit systems

Indexed keywords

BUSES; PASSENGER CARS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SMART CARDS;

AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; AUTOMATIC PASSENGER COUNTERS (APC); FIELD OERATIONAL TESTS (FOT); PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION; TRANSIT SYSTEMS;

INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

EID: 33748653620     PISSN: 10248072     EISSN: 15472442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10248070190048727     Document Type: Article

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