“…Finally, the majority of the existing queueing models use the concept of the effective green time. During this time, the queued vehicles are assumed to depart at constant (saturation) rate with free-flow speed, see, e.g., Webster (1958), Macedo et al (2017). The green period in such models has a different length and is postponed compared to the real green period by the acceleration time of the first vehicle in the queue.…”