Empty vehicles management as a method for reducing passenger waiting time in Personal Rapid Transit networks

IET Intelligent Transport Systems

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 231-239

  Daszczuk, Wiktor Bohdan ^a   Choromański, Włodzimierz ^a   Miesćicki, Jerzy ^a   Grabski, Waldemar ^a  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; URBAN TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLES;

AVERAGE WAITING-TIME; DISTRIBUTED IMPLEMENTATION; EMPTY VEHICLE MANAGEMENTS; PASSENGER WAITING TIME; PERSONAL RAPID TRANSITS; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT; VEHICLE DELIVERY; VEHICLES MANAGEMENTS;

RAPID TRANSIT;

EID: 84925371898     PISSN: 1751956X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-its.2013.0084     Document Type: Article

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