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The most powerful method in the development of traffic theories was formulated and used by the famous A.K. Erlang who died in 1929. He was the initiator of the theory of telephone traffic at the beginning of this century in his using the working hypothesis statistical equilibrium, first published in 1917. On the assumption that equilibrium exists in tele-traffic during the busy period of the day, Erlang was able to develop in a very precise and accurate way the total probability distribution for the states of the traffic process under consideration, and by doing this also the forecasts of the relevant service criteria for the system for a period of time, e.g., busy signals and waiting-time, etc.
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Jensen, A. (1976). Statistical Equilibrium. In: Florian, M.A. (eds) Traffic Equilibrium Methods. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 118. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48123-9_6
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