Delay at Traffic Intersections

Abstract

The distribution of delay to vehicles is found for two models of behaviour at traffic intersections. In the first part we consider vehicles turning both left and right from a minor road onto a major road which has two-way traffic. In Section 5 we study the delay on a major road caused by vehicles wishing to turn right and which must wait for a gap in the oncoming traffic in order to do so. Some numerical evaluation of mean delays shows the benefit which may be expected from certain road improvements.