A new approach to evaluating on-road public transport priority projects: Balancing the demand for limited road-space

Transportation

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 413-428

  Currie, Graham ^a   Sarvi, Majid ^a   Young, Bill ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bus priority; Economic evaluation; Road space management; Traffic planning; Traffic simulation; Tram priority

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANNING;

ECONOMIC EVALUATION; ON-ROAD PUBLIC TRANSPORT; ROAD SPACE MANAGEMENT; TRAFFIC PLANNING; TRAFFIC SIMULATION; TRAM PRIORITY;

MOTOR TRANSPORTATION;

MODELING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; SIMULATION; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MELBOURNE; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 34347370094     PISSN: 00494488     EISSN: 15729435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11116-006-9107-3     Document Type: Article

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