SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF TRAFFIC LEAVING A SIGNALIZED INTERSECTION
RECENT STUDIES OF SINGLE-LANE TRAFFIC NEAR THE AUTHOR'S COLLEGE IN LONDON HAVE LED TO SIMPLE BUNCHING MODEL THAT PREDICTS SOME ASPECTS OF THE BEHAVIOR OF VEHICLE PLATOONS LEAVING A SINGNALIZED INTERSECTION WHERE OVERTAKING IS IMPOSSIBLE. THE RELATION BETWEEN TIME MEAN SPEED AND FLOW RATE AT THIS SITE VARIED CONSIDERABLY WITH THE SAMPLING INTERVAL USED; POSSIBLE REASONS FOR THIS EFFECT ARE DISCUSSED. THE EXPERIMENTAL WORK IS BRIEFLY DESCRIBED, AND SOME TENTATIVE CONCLUSIONS ARE DRAWN ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL RELATIONS OF TRAFFIC FLOW. /AUTHOR/
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Supplemental Notes:
- Vol 4, No 4, PP 331-346, 6 FIG, 3 TAB, 9 REF, 1 APP
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Authors:
- WRIGHT, C C
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Media Info
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Serial:
- Transportation Science
- Volume: 5
- Issue Number: 2
- Publisher: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
- ISSN: 0041-1655
- Serial URL: http://transci.journal.informs.org/
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Bunching; Intersections; Mathematical models; Probability theory; Queuing theory; Sampling; Signalized intersections; Speed; Traffic flow; Traffic platooning
- Old TRIS Terms: Bunching (Vehicles); Queueing theory
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00227298
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Apr 10 1971 12:00AM