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Impedance-effects in capacity estimation

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Formulas for the capacity of an unsignalized intersection for traffic streams which are subordinated to two or more streams of higher priority are developed. The case of only two conflicting streams analysed by Tanner (1962) is extended. The process at the intersection is modelled as a priority queuing system with Poisson input and service times depending on the work load.

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  1. Fachbereich Mathematik, Technische Hochschule, Schloßgartenstraße 7, 6100, Darmstadt

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Wegmann, H. Impedance-effects in capacity estimation. ZOR Zeitschrift für Operations Research Methods and Models of Operations Research 36, 73–91 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01541033

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