Exact and heuristic methods for public transit circulator design

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 309-318

  Lownes, Nicholas E ^a,b   Machemehl, Randy B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Circulator; Feeder; Optimization; Public transportation; Shuttle; Transit network design

Indexed keywords

MASS TRANSPORTATION; OPTIMIZATION;

CIRCULATOR; FEEDER; PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION; SHUTTLE; TRANSIT NETWORK DESIGN;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

DESIGN; MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

AUSTIN; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 73149118261     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2009.07.010     Document Type: Article

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