A moving bottleneck
Suppose that a vehicle or convoy enters a two-lane unidirectional roadway and travels at a velocity v* less than the prevailing traffic. This moving bottleneck may cause a queue to form as vehicles try to pass the obstruction. It is shown that by going to a moving coordinate system traveling at velocity v* the analysis of this can be transformed into a corresponding analysis of flow past a stationary bottleneck. The theory is then extended to investigate possible consequences of trucks on grades.
Year of publication: |
1998
|
---|---|
Authors: | Newell, G. F. |
Published in: |
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. - Elsevier, ISSN 0191-2615. - Vol. 32.1998, 8, p. 531-537
|
Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Saved in:
Online Resource
Saved in favorites
Similar items by person
-
Approximations for superposition arrival processes in queues
Newell, G. F., (1984)
-
Newell, G. F., (1979)
-
Control of pairing of vehicles on a public transportation route, two vehicles, one control point
Newell, G. F., (1974)
- More ...