Cost-saving properties of schedule coordination in a simple trunk-and-feeder transit system

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 131-139

  Sivakumaran, Karthikgeyan ^a   Li, Yuwei ^a   Cassidy, Michael J ^a   Madanat, Samer ^a  

^a Univ of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Feeder transit; Transit schedule coordination

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; VEHICLES;

CONTINUUM MODEL; COST SAVING; FEEDER SERVICE; FEEDER TRANSIT; GENERALIZED COST; PUBLIC TRANSIT SYSTEMS; TRANSIT SCHEDULES; TRANSIT SYSTEMS;

FEEDING;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; MODELING; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; TRANSPORT VEHICLE; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM;

EID: 80053921172     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2011.09.013     Document Type: Article

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