Punctuality-based departure time scheduling under stochastic bottleneck capacity: Formulation and equilibrium

Transportmetrica B

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 195-225

  Siu, Barbara W Y ^a   Lo, Hong K ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bottleneck model; Scheduling; Stochastic bottleneck; Travel behaviour; Travel time uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900463190     PISSN: 21680566     EISSN: 21680582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21680566.2013.847811     Document Type: Article

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