Service reliability in a network context: Impacts of synchronizing schedules in long headway services

Transportation Research Record

Volumn 2417, Issue , 2014, Pages 18-26

  Lee, Aaron ^a   Van Oort, Neils ^a,b   Van Nes, Rob ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Goudappel Coffeng Mobility Consultants   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRAVEL TIME;

ARRIVAL TIME; DEPARTURE TIME; MAJOR FACTORS; MULTIOPERATORS; NETWORK CONTEXTS; RELIABILITY INDICATORS; SCHEDULED TRANSFER; SERVICE RELIABILITY; TRANSFER TIME DISTRIBUTION; TRAVEL-TIME;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84938412604     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: 21694052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2417-03     Document Type: Article

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