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An improved model for signalised intersections with vehicle-actuated control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Richard Cowan
Richard Cowan*
Affiliation:
CSIRO Division of Mathematics and Statistics, Sydney
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Abstract

Explicit results are found for average delays and average lengths of red and green phases for a realistic continuous-time model of a two-street intersection operating with vehicle-actuated controls. The assumed arrival processes satisfactorily model both the random ‘bunch-gap' structure of traffic and the fact that vehicles have non-zero length.

Keywords

TRAFFIC INTERSECTIONSTOCHASTIC MODELVEHICLE-ACTUATEDPOINT PROCESSES
Type
Research Papers
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , June 1978 , pp. 384 - 396
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1978 

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