Operational strategy for advanced vehicle location system-based transit signal priority

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 133, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 513-522

  Liu, Hongchao ^a   Lin, Wei Hua ^b   Tan, Chin Woo ^c  

^a Texas Tech University   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Buses; Public transportation; Simulation; Traffic models; Traffic signals

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERSECTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; TRAFFIC SIGNALS;

ADVANCED VEHICLE LOCATION (AVL); PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION; TRANSIT SIGNAL PRIORITY (TSP); TRANSIT VEHICLES;

BUS TRANSPORTATION;

BUS TRANSPORT; PLANNING METHOD; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; SIGNAL; SIMULATION; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORT VEHICLE; TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548153033     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(2007)133:9(513)     Document Type: Article

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