Mesoscopic simulation for transit operations

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 896-908

  Toledo, Tomer ^a   Cats, Oded ^a   Burghout, Wilco ^b   Koutsopoulos, Haris N ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Mesoscopic; Traffic simulation; Transit operations

Indexed keywords

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; REAL TIME CONTROL; SCHEDULING; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

FREQUENCY DETERMINATION; MESOSCOPIC SIMULATION; MESOSCOPIC TRAFFIC SIMULATION; MESOSCOPICS; REAL-TIME CONTROL STRATEGY; SCHEDULE MAINTENANCES; TRAFFIC SIMULATIONS; TRANSIT OPERATIONS;

ADVANCED PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS;

METROPOLITAN AREA; MODEL; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; REAL TIME; ROAD TRANSPORT; SIMULATION; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

ISRAEL; TEL AVIV; TEL AVIV-JAFFA;

EID: 77955926195     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2010.02.008     Document Type: Article

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