%0 Journal Article
%T Gap stability in the light of car-following theory
%J Transportation research
%D 1973
%A Blumenfeld, Dennis E.
%A Weiss, George H.
%V 7
%N 2
%P 199-205
%X 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.<p />
%G 
%I Elsevier Publishing
%@ 0041-1647
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0041-1647(73)90013-0