Railway capacity and train delay relationships

Advances in Spatial Science

Volumn , Issue 9783540680550, 2007, Pages 129-150

  Mattsson, Lars Göran ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

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EID: 85039423068     PISSN: 14309602     EISSN: 21979375     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-68056-7_7     Document Type: Chapter

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1. The author is grateful for very helpful comments and suggestions from the editors and from two anonymous referees. The research was given financial support from the Swedish Institute for Transport and Communications Analysis. An earlier version of the paper was presented at the 1st International Seminar on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis in Delft 2005.
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