Assessing the benefits of integrated en-route transit information systems and time-varying transit pricing systems in a congested transit network

Transportation Planning and Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 215-237

  Ren, Hualing ^a,b   Gao, Ziyou ^a   Lam, William H K ^b   Long, Jiancheng ^a  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

En route transit information systems; Schedule based dynamic transit assignment; Time varying transit pricing systems

Indexed keywords

COMBINED SYSTEM; DEPARTURE TIME CHOICE; EN-ROUTE; EN-ROUTE TRANSIT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTEGRATED EFFECTS; JOINT IMPLEMENTATION; MULTI-CLASS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; PRICING SYSTEMS; ROUTE CHOICE BEHAVIOR; SCHEDULE-BASED DYNAMIC TRANSIT ASSIGNMENT; STOCHASTIC DYNAMICS; TIME VARYING; TIME-VARYING TRANSIT PRICING SYSTEMS; TOTAL COSTS; TRANSIT ASSIGNMENT; TRANSIT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TRANSIT NETWORKS; TRANSIT OPERATORS; TRAVEL COSTS;

ECONOMICS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; PERSONNEL; STOCHASTIC MODELS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TIME VARYING NETWORKS; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

COSTS;

IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; INFORMATION SYSTEM; ROAD PRICING; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 69949093518     PISSN: 03081060     EISSN: 10290354     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03081060903017077     Document Type: Article

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