Efficient scheduling of railway traffic based on global information of train

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1008-1030

  Li, Feng ^a   Gao, Ziyou ^a   Li, Keping ^a   Yang, Lixing ^a  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Effective travel advance strategy; Scheduling; Train control

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; RAILROAD TRAFFIC CONTROL; RAILROADS; SCHEDULING; TRANSPORTATION; TRAVEL TIME;

ACCELERATION AND DECELERATION; COMPUTATIONAL PERFORMANCE; DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS; DISCRETE EVENT MODELS; EFFECTIVE TRAVEL-ADVANCE STRATEGY; SINGLE TRACK RAILWAY; TRAIN CONTROL; TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH;

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; LINEAR PROGRAMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAILWAY TRANSPORT; TRAIN; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 52749094717     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2008.03.003     Document Type: Article

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