Road Traffic Flow Considered as a Stochastic Process
- 1 April 1962
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
- Vol. 58 (2) , 312-325
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305004100036525
Abstract
Equations are derived for the process of catching-up and overtaking which occurs in one lane of traffic for a model in which vehicles travel in random bunches and overtake at random times. The model allows vehicle velocities to be distributed and allows for several vehicles at a time to overtake. At first only stationary states are considered, that is states in which the rate of catching-up equals, on average, the rate of overtaking.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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