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A Highway Traffic Model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2017

Herbert Solomon
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Abstract

The trajectory of a car traveling at a constant speed on an idealized infinite highway can be viewed as a straight line in the time-space plane. Entry times are governed by a Poisson process with intensity parameter A leading to all trajectories as random lines in a plane. The Poisson distribution of number of encounters of cars on the highway is developed through random line models and non-homogeneous Poisson fields, and its parameter, which depends on the specific random measure employed, is obtained explicitly.

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Type
Part VII — Probability Models in the Physical Sciences
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Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 12 , Issue S1 , 1975, pp. 303 - 309
Copyright
Copyright © 1975 Applied Probability Trust 

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