Abstract
A transport system capacity is introduced as maximal car flow density compatible with a desired quality of system performance. As an objective function one can choose mean car velocity or mean travel time dealing with highway capacity. Mean number of cars waiting before crossroads is useful to analyze the traffic lights capacity. Probability of a line of stationary or very slow moving traffic with length exceeding a given threshold can also serve for estimation of a transport system capacity. We consider three examples of transport systems (a highway without traffic lights with two car types, a single crossroads as well as hierarchical networks) and estimate their capacities.
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The research was partially supported by RFBR grant 13-01-00653.
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Afanasyeva, L., Bulinskaya, E. (2013). Estimation of Transport Systems Capacity. In: Kozlov, V., Buslaev, A., Bugaev, A., Yashina, M., Schadschneider, A., Schreckenberg, M. (eds) Traffic and Granular Flow '11. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39669-4_7
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