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Delays to road traffic at an intersection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

G. F. Yeo  and
B. Weesakul
G. F. Yeo
Affiliation:
Yale University
B. Weesakul
Affiliation:
National Statistical Offices, Bangkok
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Abstract

A model for road traffic delays at intersections is considered where vehicles arriving, possibly in bunches, in a Poisson process in a one way minor road yield right of way to traffic, which forms alternate bunches and gaps, in a major road. The gap acceptance times are random variables, and depend on whether or not a minor road vehicle is immediately following another minor road vehicle into the intersection or not.

The transforms of the stationary waiting time and queue size distributions, and the mean stationary delay, for minor road vehicles are obtained by substitution of determined service time distributions into results for a generalisation of the M/G/1 queueing system. Some numerical results are given to illustrate the increase in the mean delay for variable gap acceptance times for a Borel-Tanner distribution of major road traffic, and a partial solution is given for a two way major road.

Type
Research Papers
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , December 1964 , pp. 297 - 310
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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 

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