What is it about?

We provide formulas for the expected waiting time of vehicles and for the expected length of queues at traffic lights

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Why is it important?

There where no formulas derived in probabilistic terms, before. Only heuristic formulas that performed badly in some cases.

Perspectives

This is for use by traffic engineers, as a tool to compute simple performance measures of intersections in urban traffic

Dr Paula P Milheiro-Oliveira
University of porto

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This page is a summary of: Queues with Server Vacations as a Model for Pretimed Signalized Urban Traffic, Transportation Science, August 2017, INFORMS,
DOI: 10.1287/trsc.2016.0727.
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