Service reliability and hidden waiting time insights from automatic vehicle location data

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1955, 2006, Pages 79-87

  Furth, Peter G ^a   Muller, Theo H J ^b  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA REDUCTION; RAPID TRANSIT; RELIABILITY THEORY; SCHEDULING; TIME MEASUREMENT;

AUTOMATIC VEHICLE LOCATION (AVL); PASSENGERS; SERVICE RELIABILITY; SHORT HEADWAY SERVICES;

VEHICLE LOCATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33845310836     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0361198106195500110     Document Type: Conference Paper

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