| Article ID: | iaor2005303 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 51 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 242 |
| End Page Number: | 257 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2004 |
| Journal: | Naval Research Logistics |
| Authors: | Gautam Natarajan, Kharoufeh Jeffrey P. |
| Keywords: | networks: path |
We analyze the moments of the random time required for a vehicle to traverse a transportation network link of arbitrary length when its speed is governed by a random environment. The problem is motivated by stochastic transportation network applications in which the estimation of travel time moments is of great importance. We analyze this random time in a transient and asymptotic sense by employing results from the field of fluid queues. The results are demonstrated on two example problems.