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In Part I of this paper series, several macroscopic traffic model elements for mathematically describing freeway networks equipped with managed lane facilities were proposed. These modeling techniques seek to capture at the macroscopic the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-28 Matthew A. Wright , Roberto Horowitz , Alex A. Kurzhanskiy

Facing the congestion challenges of mixed road networks comprising expressways and arterial road networks, traditional control solutions fall short. To effectively alleviate traffic congestion in mixed road networks, it is crucial to clear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-13 Yunran Di , Haotian Shi , Weihua Zhang , Heng Ding , Xiaoyan Zheng , Bin Ran

Vehicle trajectories can offer the most precise and detailed depiction of traffic flow and serve as a critical component in traffic management and control applications. Various technologies have been applied to reconstruct vehicle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-12 Xuejian Chen , Guoyang Qin , Toru Seo , Ye Tian , Jian Sun

The traffic modelling often keeps the mesoscopic scale in the theoretical sphere because the integro-differential nature of its equations. In the present work we suggest to use the lattice Boltzmann method to overcome these difficulties. In…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-10-01 Romain Noël , Laurent Navarro , Guy Courbebaisse

To explain the phenomenon of bifurcation delay, which occurs in planar systems of the form $\dot{x}=\epsilon f(x,z,\epsilon)$, $\dot{z}=g(x,z,\epsilon)z$, where $f(x,0,0)>0$ and $g(x,0,0)$ changes sign at least once on the $x$-axis, we use…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-11-09 Ting-Hao Hsu

This paper examines the IDM microscopic car-following model from a dynamical systems perspective, analyzing the effects of delay on congestion formation. Further, a case of mixed-autonomy is considered by controlling one car with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Trevor McClain , Rahul Bhadani

Floating car data of car-following behavior in cities were compared to existing microsimulation models, after their parameters had been calibrated to the experimental data. With these parameter values, additional simulations have been…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dirk Helbing , Benno Tilch

In this paper we propose coupling conditions for a kinetic two velocity model for vehicular traffic for junctions with diverging lanes. We consider cases with and without directional preferences and present corresponding kinetic coupling…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Raul Borsche , Axel Klar

Kinetic models for vehicular traffic are reviewed and considered from the point of view of deriving macroscopic equations. A derivation of the associated macroscopic traffic flow equations leads to different types of equations: in certain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Raul Borsche , Axel Klar , Mark Kimathi

We propose in this article a M/G/c/c state dependent queuing model for road traffic flow. The model is based on finite capacity queuing theory which captures the stationary density-flow relationships. It is also inspired from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-06 Nacira Guerouahane , Djamil Aissani , Nadir Farhi , Louiza Bouallouche-Medjkoune

This paper is concerned with a fluidodynamic model for traffic flow. More precisely, we consider a single conservation law, deduced from conservation of the number of cars, defined on a road network that is a collection of roads with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 G. M. Coclite , B. Piccoli

Understanding how urban systems and traffic dynamics co-evolve is crucial for advancing sustainable and resilient cities. However, their bidirectional causal relationships remain underexplored due to challenges of simultaneously inferring…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-30 Yatao Zhang , Ye Hong , Song Gao , Martin Raubal

We study numerically the behavior of the Biham-Middleton-Levine traffic model in three dimensions. Our extensive numerical simulations show that the phase diagram for this model in three dimensions is markedly different from that in one and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 H. F. Chau , K. Y. Wan

Empirical and numerical microscopic features of moving traffic jams are presented. Based on a single vehicle data analysis, it is found that within wide moving jams, i.e., between the upstream and downstream jam fronts there is a complex…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 Boris S. Kerner , Sergey L. Klenov , Andreas Hiller , Hubert Rehborn

The two phase model for vehicular traffic flows recently appeared in \cite{goatin2006aw} and \cite{BenyahiaRosini01} is endowed with a point constraint on the flow to allow for the modelling of phenomena such as the effects of toll booths…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-27 Massimiliano D. Rosini , Benyahia Mohamed Ramiz

We present a fluid-dynamic model for the simulation of urban traffic networks with road sections of different lengths and capacities. The model allows one to efficiently simulate the transitions between free and congested traffic, taking…

Popular Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dirk Helbing , Stefan Lämmer , Jean-Patrick Lebacque

This article considers execution and analysis of laboratory experiments of pedestrians moving in a quasi-one-dimensional system with periodic boundary conditions. To analyze characteristics of jams in the system we aim to use the whole…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-02-10 Verena Ziemer , Armin Seyfried , Andreas Schadschneider

In this paper, we aim at developing new methods to join machine learning techniques and macroscopic differential models for vehicular traffic estimation and forecast. It is well known that data-driven and model-driven approaches have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Maya Briani , Emiliano Cristiani , Elia Onofri

In the present paper a review and numerical comparison of a special class of multi-phase traffic theories based on microscopic, kinetic and macroscopic traffic models is given. Macroscopic traffic equations with multi-valued fundamental…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Raul Borsche , Mark Kimathi , Axel Klar

While macroscopic models for single or multi-lane traffic flow are well established, these models are not applicable to the dynamics and characteristics of disordered traffic which is characterized by widely different types of vehicles and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-27 Shrey Agrawal , Venkatesan Kanagaraj , Martin Treiber