Evaluation of real-time holding strategies for improved bus service reliability

IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings, ITSC

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 718-723

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

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUS LINES; BUS SERVICES; CONTROL STRATEGIES; HOLDING TIME; MEASURES OF PERFORMANCE; MESOSCOPIC TRAFFIC SIMULATION; METROPOLITAN AREA; PASSENGER DEMANDS; REAL-WORLD; SERVICE RELIABILITY; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; TEL AVIV; TIME POINTS; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS; TRANSIT OPERATIONS; TRANSIT SERVICES; TRANSIT SIMULATION; TRANSIT SYSTEMS;

BUSES; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MASS TRANSPORTATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 78650470449     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITSC.2010.5625192     Document Type: Conference Paper

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