Title :
New Queueing Approach to the Vehicle Platoon Analysis
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Process. Sci., Univ. of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Abstract :
Influence of the leading vehicle to the follower in a single lane traffic flow and stochastic variations of headways lead to the formation of the vehicle platoons. In this paper we use the analogy between single lane traffic flows and single server queueing systems for the analysis of the vehicle platoons. We derive formulas for the mean number of vehicles in a platoon, mean number of subsequent vehicles in a free flow state, as well as the mean length of a platoon and inter-platoon distance.
Keywords :
queueing theory; road traffic; road vehicles; stochastic processes; free flow state; queueing approach; single lane traffic flow; single server queueing system; stochastic variation; vehicle platoon analysis; Delay; Delay effects; Equations; Mathematical model; Servers; Stochastic processes; Vehicles; busy period; distance headway; platoon; single server queue; time headway;
Conference_Titel :
Computing in the Global Information Technology (ICCGI), 2010 Fifth International Multi-Conference on
Conference_Location :
Valencia
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8068-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4181-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICCGI.2010.18
