CHARACTERIZING TRAFFIC CONDITIONS IN URBAN AREAS

A series of vehicular traffic experiments conducted in Austin, Texas, shows the reasonableness of the two assumptions in the two-fluid (moving and stopped vehicles) model of town traffic. The observational data support the assumption that the average speed in an urban street network is proportional to the fraction of the vehicles moving raised to a power and is also in agreement with the supposition that during relatively uniform periods the traffic is ergodic. The parameters of the two-fluid model and the observed ranges of trip time and stop time per unit distance have been shown to be effective in assessing or rank ordering the relative quality of traffic service in a number of Texas cities.

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    Operations Research Society of America

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    Baltimore, MD  United States  21202
  • Authors:
    • Herman, R
    • Ardekani, S
  • Publication Date: 1984-5

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  • Accession Number: 00389618
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: Engineering Index
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Nov 30 1984 12:00AM