Development of analytical capacity models for conventional railways with advanced signaling systems

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 138, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 961-974

  Lai, Yung Cheng ^a   Wang, Szu Han ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Capacity; Planning; Rail transportation

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY; CAPACITY IMPROVEMENT; CAPACITY MANAGEMENT; OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; RAIL TRANSPORTATION; RAILWAY OPERATORS; SIGNALING SYSTEMS;

PLANNING; RAILROADS; SIGNALING;

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; MODELING; RAILWAY TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM;

TAIWAN;

EID: 84876722564     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000388     Document Type: Article

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