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...

1. Introduction -- 2. Limit properties for a » 1 -- 3. Descriptive properties of the evolution -- 4. The overflow distribution -- 5. Joint distributions -- 6. A diffusion equation -- 7. Transient properties -- 8. Equilibrium properties of the diffusion equation -- 9. Equivalent random method --...