Control strategies for transit priority based on queue modeling and surrogate testing

Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems: Technology, Planning, and Operations

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 142-148

  Yao, Danya ^a   Su, Yuelong ^a   Zhang, Yi ^a   Li, Li ^a   Cheng, Sihan ^a   Wei, Zheng ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Queuing Modeling; Surrogate Testing; Transit Priority

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE WAITING-TIME; BUS PRIORITY; CALCULATION COST; CONTROL STRATEGIES; LOW LEVEL; MICROSCOPIC TRAFFIC SIMULATION; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; PRIORITY-BASED; QUEUING MODELING; STATISTICAL SAMPLING; SURROGATE TESTING; TESTING SYSTEMS; TRAFFIC FLOW; TRANSIT PRIORITY;

DELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS; INTERSECTIONS; QUEUEING THEORY; SAMPLING; TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRAFFIC SURVEYS; VEHICLES;

TRAFFIC SIGNALS;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; STRATEGIC APPROACH; SURROGATE METHOD; TEMPORAL PERIOD; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORT VEHICLE;

EID: 70349113524     PISSN: 15472450     EISSN: 15472442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15472450903084287     Document Type: Article

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