Transit vehicles' headway distribution and service irregularity

Public Transport

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 269-289

  Bellei, Giuseppe ^a   Gkoumas, Konstantinos ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Operation models; Transit assignment; Transit service performance; Vehicle pairing

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS; DENSITY PLOTS; DWELL TIME; FUNCTIONAL FORMS; HEADWAY DISTRIBUTION; KEY PARAMETERS; MAXIMUM LOAD; OPERATION MODEL; PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION; RUNNING TIME; SERVICE CHARACTERISTICS; STOCHASTIC SIMULATION MODEL; TRANSIT ASSIGNMENT; TRANSIT OPERATIONS; TRANSIT SERVICES; TRANSIT VEHICLES; WAITING TIME;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MASS TRANSPORTATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 79960324716     PISSN: 1866749X     EISSN: 16137159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12469-010-0024-7     Document Type: Article

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