A new reliability index based on fuzzy process capability index for travel time in multimodal networks

International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 550-565

  Ugurlu, Seda ^a   Kaya, Ihsan ^b  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Fuzzy Set theory; Process capability index; Reliability; Transportation systems

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SET THEORY; FUZZY SETS; PROCESS CONTROL; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY THEORY; SET THEORY; TRANSPORTATION;

FUZZY PROCESS CAPABILITY INDEX; MULTI-MODAL TRAVELS; MULTIMODAL NETWORK; PROCESS CAPABILITY INDICES; SOURCES OF VARIATION; SPECIFICATION LIMIT; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM; TRAVEL TIME RELIABILITY;

TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 80052168403     PISSN: 18756891     EISSN: 18756883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/18756891.2011.9727812     Document Type: Article

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