Citation

Chow WM. Transp. Res. Rec. 1976; 567: 31-36.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1976, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences USA, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

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Abstract

When an incident occurs on a roadway, traffic performance is usually evaluated by means of either the shock wave analysis or the queuing analysis. In this paper, a comparison of these two approaches is given under the assumption that there exists a unique flow-density relationship. It is shown that the two methods of evaluating the performance give the same result if the traffic density is not time dependent.