Citation

Blumenfeld DE, Weiss GH. Transp. Res. 1973; 7(2): 199-205.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1973, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0041-1647(73)90013-0

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

We elaborate a car-following model with acceleration noise for predicting the statistical properties of a gap measured at two points in a traffic stream. If the noise term is assumed to be Gaussian, then, in a linear theory, the gap itself will have a Gaussian distribution. The variance can be calculated, and the resulting theoretical description reproduces some of the features found in experimental measurements by Buhr.