IT Systems in Public Transport

Footnotes

Chapter 1: Introduction

1. Principles of object identification are described in section 4.1.

2. E. g. mixed integer linear optimisation, dynamic optimisation, customised heuristics for incremental improvement

3. The VDV standards can be obtained via the Beka publishing company (www.beka.de).

4. Transmodel (www.transmodel.org) is an abstract data model that differentiates between normative and informative parts.

5. The ideas from VDV standards 452 and 455 have had an influence on Transmodel.

6. There is a German equivalent in VDV standards 453 and 454.

7. Abbreviations are explained in the appendix.

8. With reference to the title of the book, “IT systems for transport companies”, we will be using the term ITTC model from now on.

9. For ...