Gap-acceptance in road traffic
- 1 April 1968
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Applied Probability
- Vol. 5 (1) , 84-92
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3212079
Abstract
We find the distribution of delay to minor road vehicles waiting to merge or cross a single stream of major road traffic. The decision to cross is taken on the basis of a gap-acceptance function. The model turns out to be a simple queueing problem in which a customer finding an empty queue has a different service time distribution from queueing customers. The key to this representation is given in Section 3. Some numerical results in Section 6 indicate that in most circumstances a simple model will give adequate results.Keywords
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