Closed form expressions of optimal buffer times between scheduled trains at railway bottlenecks

IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings, ITSC

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 675-680

  Yuan, Jianxin ^a   Hansen, Ingo A ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROACHES; APPLICATION EXAMPLES; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSIONS; DELAY PROPAGATION; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; RAILWAY TIMETABLES;

COMPOSITE BEAMS AND GIRDERS; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; RAILROAD CARS; RAILROADS; VEHICLE LOCATING SYSTEMS;

LOCOMOTIVES;

EID: 60749112949     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITSC.2008.4732539     Document Type: Conference Paper

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