Scheduling trains on a network of busy complex stations

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 159-178

  Carey, Malachy ^a   Crawford, Ivan ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heuristics; Network; Timetabling; Train scheduling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC TRAIN CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; RAILROAD STATIONS; SCHEDULING; TRAIN FERRIES;

DRAFT TIMETABLE; RAIL NETWORKS; TRAIN SCHEDULING;

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

HEURISTICS; NETWORK DESIGN; TRAIN; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 33748683746     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2006.02.002     Document Type: Article

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