Bus stop-skipping scheme with random travel time

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 35, Issue , 2013, Pages 46-56

  Liu, Zhiyuan ^a   Yan, Yadan ^b,d   Qu, Xiaobo ^c   Zhang, Yong ^d  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bus deadheading; Bus stop skipping; Monte Carlo Simulation; Public transport operation management; Random travel time

Indexed keywords

BUS TERMINALS; BUS TRANSPORTATION; BUSES; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

BUS OPERATORS; BUS STOP; GLOBAL OPTIMUM; OPTIMIZATION MODELING; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; SATISFACTORY SOLUTIONS; TERMINAL POINTS; VEHICLE TRAVELS;

TRAVEL TIME;

BUS TRANSPORT; GENETIC ALGORITHM; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; ROAD TRANSPORT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 84880348229     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2013.06.004     Document Type: Article

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