Simulating railway and metropolitan rail networks: From planning to on-line control

IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 18-30

  Núñez, Felipe ^a   Reyes, Francisco ^a   Grube, Pablo ^a   Cipriano, Aldo ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Computer aided simulation; Intelligent transportation systems; Metro systems; Public transportation; Railway systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SIMULATIONS; INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; METRO SYSTEM; PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION; RAILWAY SYSTEM;

ADVANCED PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RAILS; SIMULATORS; SUBWAYS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING;

EID: 80052005749     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MITS.2010.939923     Document Type: Article

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