Modelling train delays with q-exponential functions

Keith Briggs and Christian Beck

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2007, vol. 378, issue 2, 498-504

Abstract: We demonstrate that the distribution of train delays on the British railway network is accurately described by q-exponential functions. We explain this by constructing an underlying superstatistical model.

Keywords: Superstatistics; q-exponentials; Fat-tail distributions; Delay distributions; Railway traffic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.11.084

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