Locating stations of public transportation vehicles for improving transit accessibility

Transport

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 99-104

  Ziari, Hassan ^a   Keymanesh, Mahmud R ^a   Khabiri, Mohammad M ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Access distance; Bus stops planning; Locating; Optimization; Public transportation; Travel time

Indexed keywords

COSTS; OPTIMIZATION; RAPID TRANSIT; URBAN PLANNING;

ACCESS DISTANCE; BUS STOPS PLANNING; PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION; TRAVEL TIME;

VEHICLE LOCATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 34250667070     PISSN: 16484142     EISSN: 16483480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16484142.2007.9638106     Document Type: Article

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