Estimating Minimum Gap Acceptances for Merging Motorists

D. R. McNeil and J. H. T. Morgan
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D. R. McNeil: Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia
J. H. T. Morgan: Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia

Transportation Science, 1968, vol. 2, issue 3, 265-277

Abstract: Assume that motorists arrive at a stop sign and wish to merge into traffic on the main road, using the following criterion for making decisions: For each motorist there is a number, X , which is the smallest headway which the motorist will accept before merging into it. For each of these gaps presented to a particular motorist, X is the same, but X varies from motorist to motorist, and has the distribution function F X ( x ). Assuming the gaps are independent and identically distributed variates, and the merging motorists arrive at times independent of the traffic on the main road, consistent estimates of the moments of X are obtained, using sample values of the accepted and rejected gaps. An estimator of F X ( x ) is also obtained, without these assumptions. The paper concludes with a numerical analysis using data obtained from an intersection in Sydney.

Date: 1968
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