A fluid queueing model for link travel time moments

✍ Scribed by Jeffrey P. Kharoufeh; Natarajan Gautam

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 118 KB
• Volume: 51
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-069X
• DOI: 10.1002/nav.10114

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

We analyze the moments of the random time required for a vehicle to traverse a transportation network link of arbitrary length when its speed is governed by a random environment. The problem is motivated by stochastic transportation network applications in which the estimation of travel time moments is of great importance. We analyze this random time in a transient and asymptotic sense by employing results from the field of fluid queues. The results are demonstrated on two example problems. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2004