Statistical properties of low-density traffic
Authors:
George Weiss and Robert Herman
Journal:
Quart. Appl. Math. 20 (1962), 121-130
MSC:
Primary 90.30
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/qam/145991
MathSciNet review:
145991
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Abstract: This paper considers an infinitely long line of traffic moving on a highway without traffic lights or other inhomogeneities. It is assumed that each car travels at a constant speed which is a random variable. A further assumption is that when one car overtakes another, passing is always possible and occurs without change of speed. it is shown that any initial headway distribution must relax to a negative exponential distribution in the limit of $t$ becoming infinite. The statistics of passing events are examined, and it is shown that the probability of passing (or being passed by) $n$ cars In time $t$ is described by a Poisson distribution.
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I. Prigogine and F. C. Andrews, A Boltzmann-like approach for traffic flow, Opns. Res. 8, 789 (1960)
M. J. Lighthill, and G. B. Whitham On kinematic waves, II; A theory of traffic flow on long crowded roads, Proc. Roy. Soc. (A) 229, 317 (1955)
R. E. Chandler, R. Herman and E. W. Montroll. Traffic dynamics: Studies in car following, Opns. Res. 6, 165 (1958)
R. Herman, E. W. Montroll, R. B. Potts and R. W. Rothery, Traffic dynamics: Analysis of stability in car-following. Opns. Res. 7, 86 (1959)
R. Herman and R. B. Potts, Single lane traffic theory and experiment, Theory of Traffic Flow, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1961, p. 120
D. C. Gazis, R. Herman and R. B. Potts, Car following theory of steady state traffic flow, Opns. Res. 7, 499 (1959)
R. Brout and I. Prigogine, Statistical mechanics of irreversible processes, Part VIII; General theory of weakly coupled systems, Physica 22, 621 (1956)
M. S. Barlett, Some problems associated with random velocity, Publ. de l’Inst. de Statist. Paris, VI, 4, 261 (1957)
L. Carleson, A mathematical model for highway traffic, Nordisk Mat. Tid. 5, 4 (1957)
A. J. Miller, A queueing model for road traffic flow, J. Roy. Stat. Soc. B, 23, 64 (1961)
W. L. Smith, Renewal theory and its ramifications, J. Roy. Stat. Soc. (B) 20, 243 (1958)
G. H. Weiss and A. A. Maradudin, Some problems in traffic delay, (to appear)
R. Herman and G. H. Weiss, Some comments on the highway crossing problem, (to appear)
M. S. Raff, The distribution of blocks in an uncongested stream of automobile traffic, J. Am. Stat. Soc. 46, 114 (1951)
J. C. Tanner, The delay to pedestrians crossing a road, Biometrika, 38, 383 (1951)
A. J. Mayne, Some further results in the theory of pedestrians and road traffic, Biometrika, 41, 375 (1954)
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