A Queueing Model for Road Traffic Flow
- 1 January 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology
- Vol. 23 (1) , 64-75
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2517-6161.1961.tb00391.x
Abstract
SUMMARY: It is proposed that on roads which are uninterrupted by traffic signals, intersections, etc., vehicles should be considered as travelling in random queues. Criteria for determining the queues in actual traffic are found. A crude model is then used to study the formation of these queues in an attempt to derive the Borel–Tanner distribution of queue lengths. The random queues model is then used to study waiting times for pedestrians (or vehicles) wishing to cross one lane of traffic.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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