IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/inm/ortrsc/v10y1976i4p337-347.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

An Abbreviated Procedure for Estimating Equilibrium Queue Lengths in Rural Two Lane Traffic

Author

Listed:
  • P. G. Gipps

    (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Abstract

On two-lane two-way roads overtaking opportunities are limited by the opposing traffic. For fixed volumes of traffic in both directions the opportunities for vehicles in one lane to overtake depend on the mean length of queues in the second lane, so that the mean queue length in the first lane is a function of the mean queue length in the second lane and vice versa. This paper takes an earlier procedure for determining the mean queue lengths in the two lanes at equilibrium and simplifies it by assuming that the distribution of queue lengths is known. The results,obtained by assuming that the underlying distribution is Miller, Borel-Tanner, or geometric are then compared by a numerical evaluation.

Suggested Citation

  • P. G. Gipps, 1976. "An Abbreviated Procedure for Estimating Equilibrium Queue Lengths in Rural Two Lane Traffic," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 10(4), pages 337-347, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ortrsc:v:10:y:1976:i:4:p:337-347
    DOI: 10.1287/trsc.10.4.337
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/trsc.10.4.337
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1287/trsc.10.4.337?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:inm:ortrsc:v:10:y:1976:i:4:p:337-347. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Asher (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/inforea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.