Mesoscopic modeling of bus public transportation

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2188, 2010, Pages 9-18

  Cats, Oded ^a   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 TRANSPORTATION; BUSES; MASS TRANSPORTATION; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DYNAMICS MODELS; LEVEL OF SERVICE; MESOSCOPIC MODELING; PUBLIC TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION; SIMULATION MODEL; SYSTEM LEVELS; SYSTEMS PERFORMANCE; TRANSIT OPERATIONS; URBAN AREAS;

URBAN TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 79551604464     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2188-02     Document Type: Article

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