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Point processes arising in vehicular traffic flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Edward A. Brill
Edward A. Brill*
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Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
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In this paper we investigate the properties of stationary point processes motivated by the following traffic model. Suppose there is a dichotomy of slow and fast points (cars) on a road with limited overtaking. It is assumed that fast points are delayed behind (or are clustered at) a slow point in accordance with the principles of a GI/G/s queue, the order of service being irrelevant. Thus each slow point represents a service station, with the input into each station consisting of a fixed (but random) displacement of the output of the previous queueing station. It is found that tractable results for stationary point processes occur for the cases M/M/s (s = 1, 2, ···, ∞) and M/G/∞. In particular, it is found that for these cases the steady state point processes are compound Poisson and that for the M/M/1 case the successive headways form a two state Markov renewal process. In addition it is shown that the input, output, and queue size processes in a steady state M/G/∞ queue are independent at any fixed time; this is a result I have been unable to find in the literature.

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Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , December 1971 , pp. 809 - 814
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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1971 

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