TITLE:
Predicting Traffic Congestion: A Queuing Perspective
AUTHORS:
Jojo Desmond Lartey
KEYWORDS:
Road Traffic; Congestion; Queues; Stochastic Process; Markov Chain
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Modelling and Simulation,
Vol.2 No.2,
April
2,
2014
ABSTRACT: Mobility is an indispensable activity of our daily lives and road transport is one popular approach
to mobility. However road congestion occurrence can be irritating and costly. This work contributes
to the modeling and therefore predicting road congestion of a Ghanaian urban road by way
of queuing theory using stochastic process and initial value problem framework. The approach is
used to describe performance measure parameters, allowing the prediction of the level of queue
built up at a signalized intersection as an insight into road vehicular congestion there and how
such congestion occurrence can be efficiently managed.