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The capacity of an intersection with non-stationary traffic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Helmut Wegmann*
Affiliation:
Technische Hochschule Darmstadt

Abstract

The average number of vehicles being able to enter an intersection per time unit from a minor road with a stop or yield sign — the capacity of the intersection — depends on the density of the traffic stream on the major road. In case the time-process of the major road traffic at the intersection is a non-homogeneous Poisson process with a periodic intensity function the capacity is calculated and compared with the capacity in the homogeneous case.

Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1976 

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References

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