Waiting times at periodically switched one-way traffic lanes: A periodic, two-queue polling system with random setup times

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 495-517

  Van Der Heijden, Matthieu ^a   Van Harten, Aart ^a   Ebben, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VEHICLES;

ASYMMETRIC SYSTEM; COMPOUND POISSON; MEAN WAITING TIME; ONE WAY TRAFFIC; SERVICE DISCIPLINES; SHARED INFRASTRUCTURE; UNDERGROUND TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; VEHICLE ARRIVAL RATES;

STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 0035602185     PISSN: 02699648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0269964801154057     Document Type: Article

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