TRAFFIC ARRIVAL PATTERNS ON A CROSS SECTION OF A MULTILANE HIGHWAY

The dependence of vehicle arrival patterns in adjacent lanes of a multilane, one-directional highway necessitates the use of models which simultaneously describe vehicle arrivals on the roadway (defined as a number of parallel lanes in the same direction). The assumption of independent vehicle arrivals may lead to inaccuracies in a number of important design applications. The model presented describes the sequence of vehicle arrivals in adjacent lanes as a Markov renewal process. Markovian properties provide adequate expression of the dependence of vehicle arrivals on the roadway. After a vehicle arrives in a certain lane, the tendency for the next vehicle to appear in the adjacent lane is greater than is the unconditional probability for such a vehicle in that lane. These arrival patterns indicate that the distribution of vehicles in road lanes is different from that achieved by splitting total flow into independent streams. (Author/TRRL)

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• Authors:
  • Mahalel, P
  • Hakkert, A S
• Publication Date: 1983-7

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 263-270
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
  • Volume: 17A
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0965-8564
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09658564

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Dispersion (Statistics); Highways; Location; Markov processes; Mathematical models; Multilane highways; Physical distribution; Traffic distribution; Traffic flow; Traffic lanes; Vehicles
• Geographic Terms: Israel
• ITRD Terms: 6512: Dispersion (stat); 9016: Distribution (gen); 2755: Highway; 8050: Israel; 9061: Location; 6473: Mathematical model; 2838: Multilane; 671: Traffic flow; 2827: Traffic lane; 1255: Vehicle
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Vehicles and Equipment; I71: Traffic Theory;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00381074
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-036 330
• Files: HSL, ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 30 1984 12:00AM