Modelling train delays with q-exponential functions

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 378, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 498-504

  Briggs, Keith ^a   Beck, Christian ^b  

^a MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Delay distributions; Fat tail distributions; q exponentials; Railway traffic; Superstatistics

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TIME DELAY;

DELAY DISTRIBUTIONS; FAT-TAIL DISTRIBUTIONS; Q-EXPONENTIALS; RAILWAY TRAFFIC; SUPERSTATISTICS;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 33847794230     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.11.084     Document Type: Article

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