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Gap-acceptance in road traffic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

A. G. Hawkes
A. G. Hawkes*
Affiliation:
University College, London
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Abstract

We find the distribution of delay to minor road vehicles waiting to merge or cross a single stream of major road traffic. The decision to cross is taken on the basis of a gap-acceptance function. The model turns out to be a simple queueing problem in which a customer finding an empty queue has a different service time distribution from queueing customers. The key to this representation is given in Section 3. Some numerical results in Section 6 indicate that in most circumstances a simple model will give adequate results.

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Research Papers
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Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , April 1968 , pp. 84 - 92
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Copyright © Sheffield: Applied Probability Trust 

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