The process of information propagation in a traffic stream with a general vehicle headway: A revisit

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 367-375

  Wang, Bruce ^a   Adams, Teresa M ^b   Jin, Wenlong ^c   Meng, Qiang ^d  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

General vehicle headway; Inter vehicle communication; Stochastic process

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TRAFFIC CONTROL; VEHICLE TO VEHICLE COMMUNICATIONS; VEHICLES;

EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; GENERAL VEHICLE HEADWAY; HEADWAY DISTRIBUTION; INFORMATION PROPAGATION; INTER VEHICLE COMMUNICATIONS; NUMBER OF VEHICLES; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; TRAFFIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

VEHICULAR AD HOC NETWORKS;

INFORMATION SYSTEM; MODELING; PROBABILITY; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 77952288021     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2009.05.011     Document Type: Article

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