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Some Properties of Presence Detectors

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  • G. F. Newell

    (University of California, Berkeley, California)

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Presence detectors on highways record whether or not there are any cars on some nonzero length section of highway. The absence of cars is used as a criterion for switching a vehicle-actuated signal. The problem considered here is the following. Cars pass the detector according to a Poisson process, at velocities that are independent, identically distributed random variables. Starting at some arbitrary time origin, how long will it be before the detector of length L is empty for the first time. It is shown that, in most cases, this time is nearly the same as if all cars had the same velocity q / k , q = flow, k = spacial density, and is rather insensitive to the distribution of the velocities.

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  • G. F. Newell, 1970. "Some Properties of Presence Detectors," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 4(3), pages 311-321, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ortrsc:v:4:y:1970:i:3:p:311-321
    DOI: 10.1287/trsc.4.3.311
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