Bus Operation Monitoring Oriented Public Transit Travel Index System and Calculation Models
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عنوان ژورنال: Advances in Mechanical Engineering
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1687-8140,1687-8140
DOI: 10.1155/2013/389825