| Article ID: | iaor1993194 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 25B |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Start Page Number: | 365 |
| End Page Number: | 372 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1991 |
| Journal: | Transportation Research. Part B: Methodological |
| Authors: | Islam N.M., Consul P.S. |
| Keywords: | queues: applications, statistics: experiment |
The Consul distribution introduced by Consul and Shenton, and modified by Islam and Consul is derived as a bunching model in traffic flow through the branching process and also through the birth-and-death process. Some applications of the model to vehicle bunch side data are also considered.