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| Transit Operations and Service Scheduling | |
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| Basic operating elements | |
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| Line, network, stop and station | |
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| Vehicles, transit units and fleet size | |
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| Usage of service: Passenger flow and volume | |
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| Operating elements: Headway and frequency | |
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| Capacity, work and utilization | |
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| Travel times | |
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| Speeds | |
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| Information files and data collection: surveys and counts | |
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| Organization of surveys | |
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| Transit speed-and-delay survey | |
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| Passenger volume and load count | |
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| Passenger boarding and alighting counts | |
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| Other types of surveys | |
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| Transit travel characteristics | |
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| Factors influencing transit travel | |
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| Spatial distribution of transit travel | |
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| Temporal variations of transit travel | |
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| Passenger volume analysis and service capacity determination | |
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| Characteristics of travel on a transit line | |
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| Indicators of transit usage | |
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| Scheduling of service | |
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| Components of the scheduling process | |
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| Determination of service requirements | |
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| Scheduling procedure | |
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| Procedure summary, examples and numerical schedules | |
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| Graphical presentations of transit operations | |
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| Crew scheduling or run-cutting | |
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| Use of computers in scheduling | |
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| Measures of operating efficiency | |
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| Capacity, Speed, Accelerated and Special Operations | |
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| Transit line capacity | |
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| Elements of line capacity | |
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| Capacity computations | |
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| Systems approach to transit line capacity | |
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| Capacities of different modes | |
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| Increase of transit speed | |
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| Desirability of speed increase | |
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| Possible measures for speed increase | |
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| Sensitivity of transit speeds to elements of cycle time | |
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| Evaluations of measures for speed increase | |
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| Stops and stopping regimes | |
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| Definitions and relationships | |
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| Stopping regimes and stops | |
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| Practical values of stop spacings | |
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| Accelerated rail transit operations with fixed stopping schedules | |
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| Skip-stop operation | |
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| Zonal operation | |
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| Express/local operation | |
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| Comparison of all-stop, skip-stop, zonal and express/local operations | |
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| Methodology for selection of accelerated operations | |
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| Scheduling of single-track lines, circle lines and trunk lines with branches | |
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| Single-track lines | |
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| Circle lines | |
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| Trunk lines with branches | |
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| Modeling and Optimization in Transit Systems Analysis | |
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| Application of systems analysis in transit | |
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| Introduction of methodology | |
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| Classification of applications | |
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| Conceptual models | |
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| The conceptual modeling methodology | |
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| Representative applications of conceptual models | |
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| Mathematical modeling procedure and applications | |
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| The mathematical modeling procedure | |
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| Models for optimization of rolling stock | |
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| Models for analysis of operations | |
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| Applications of simulation methodology | |
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| Evaluation of systems analysis and operations research in transit | |
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| Transit Lines and Networks | |
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| Planning objectives, principles and considerations | |
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| Passenger attraction | |
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| Network operating efficiency | |
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| Network - city interactions | |
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| Geometry of transit lines | |
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| Spacing of parallel lines | |
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| Line lengths | |
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| Line alignments | |
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| Independent vs. integrated lines | |
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| Types of transit lines and their characteristics | |
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| Radial and diametrical lines | |
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| Tangential, circumferential, circle and loop lines | |
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| Trunk lines with branches and feeders | |
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| Rights-of-way in special alignments | |
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| Transfers in transit networks | |
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| Classification of transfers by headway length | |
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| Classification of transfers by ty | |