Traffic and Random Processes - An Introduction

This book deals in a basic and systematic manner with the fundamentals of random function theory and looks at some aspects related to arrival, vehicle headway and operational speed processes at the same time. The work serves as a useful practical and educational tool and aims at providing stimulus and motivation to investigate issues of such a strong applicative interest. It has a clearly discursive and concise structure, in which numerical examples are given to clarify the applications of the suggested theoretical model. Some statistical characterizations are fully developed in order to illustrate the peculiarities of specific modeling approaches; finally, there is a useful bibliography for in-depth thematic analysis.

List of contents

Introduction to Random and Traffic Processes.- Statistical Characterization of Random Function.- Some Major Random Processes.- Traffic Flow Stationarity.- The Traffic Counting Process.- The Process of Vehicle Headways.- Speed Processes.

Summary

This book deals in a basic and systematic manner with the fundamentals of random function theory and looks at some aspects related to arrival, vehicle headway and operational speed processes at the same time. The work serves as a useful practical and educational tool and aims at providing stimulus and motivation to investigate issues of such a strong applicative interest. It has a clearly discursive and concise structure, in which numerical examples are given to clarify the applications of the suggested theoretical model. Some statistical characterizations are fully developed in order to illustrate the peculiarities of specific modeling approaches; finally, there is a useful bibliography for in-depth thematic analysis.

Product details

• Authors: Raffaele Mauro
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783319359328
• ISBN: 978-3-31-935932-8
• No. of pages: 119
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 8 mm x 237 mm
• Weight: 218 g
• Illustrations: IX, 119 p. 51 illus.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; B, Transportation, engineering, Electrical Engineering, Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering, Geoengineering, Complex systems, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Foundations, Dynamical systems, Geochemistry, Hydraulics, Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics, Engineering—Geology, Engineering geology, Dynamics & statics, Statistical physics, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems