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Interactions between commuting individuals can lead to large-scale spreading of rumors, ideas, or disease, even though the commuters have no net displacement. The emergent dynamics depend crucially on the commuting distribution of a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-30 Aaron Winn , Adam Konkol , Eleni Katifori

Statistical mechanics of a small system of cars on a single-lane road is developed. The system is not characterized by a Hamiltonian but by a conditional probability of a velocity of a car for the given velocity and distance of the car…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Anton Šurda

The effect of mixture lengths of vehicles on the asymmetric exclusion model is studied using numerical simulations for both open and periodic boundaries in parallel dynamics. Densities are calculated as a function of the injecting rates…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Ez-Zahraouy , K. Jetto , A. Benyoussef

The quantitative study of traffic dynamics is crucial to ensure the efficiency of urban transportation networks. The current work investigates the spatial properties of congestion, that is, we aim to characterize the city areas where…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-01-02 Aniello Lampo , Javier Borge-Holthoefer , Sergio Gómez , Albert Solé-Ribalta

Macromolecular diffusion in dense colloidal suspensions is an intriguing topic of interdisciplinary relevance in Science and Engineering. While significant efforts have been undertaken to establish the impact of crowding on the dynamics of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-01 Luca Tonti , Fabián A. García Daza , Alessandro Patti

As a dynamical complex system, traffic is characterized by a transition from free flow to congestions, which is mostly studied in highways. However, despite its importance in developing congestion mitigation strategies, the understanding of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-02 Feilong Wang , Daqing Li , Xiaoyun Xu , Ruoqian Wu , Shlomo Havlin

During the attempt to line up into a dense traffic people have necessarily to share a limited space under turbulent conditions. From the statistical point view it generally leads to a probability distribution of the distances between the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-05-01 Petr Seba

In this paper, a cellular automaton model of vehicular traffic in Manhattan-like urban system is proposed. In this model, the origin-destination trips and traffic lights have been considered. The system exhibits three different states,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-05-30 Ming Li , Zhong-Jun Ding , Rui Jiang , Mao-Bin Hu , Bing-Hong Wang

Biological functionality of cellular aggregates is largely influenced by the activity and displacements of individual constituent cells. From a theoretical perspective this activity can be characterized by hydrodynamic transport…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-31 Subhadip Chakraborti , Vasily Zaburdaev

We study traffic flow on roads with a localized periodic inhomogeneity such as traffic signals, using a stochastic car-following model. We find that in cases of congestion, traffic flow can be optimized by controlling the inhomogeneity's…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Elad Tomer , Leonid Safonov , Nilly Madar , Shlomo Havlin

We consider a tracer particle on a lattice in the presence of immobile obstacles. Starting from equilibrium, a force pulling on the particle is switched on, driving the system to a new stationary state. We solve for the complete transient…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-04 Sebastian Leitmann , Thomas Franosch

Effects of a bottleneck in a linear trafficway is investigated using a simple cellular automaton model. Introducing a blockage site which transmit cars at some transmission probability into the rule-184 cellular automaton, we observe three…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 S. Yukawa , M. Kikuchi , S. -I. Tadaki

The modelling of traffic flow using methods and models from physics has a long history. In recent years especially cellular automata models have allowed for large-scale simulations of large traffic networks faster than real time. On the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Andreas Schadschneider

Many natural and industrial processes rely on constrained transport, such as proteins moving through cells, particles confined in nanocomposite materials or gels, individuals in highly dense collec- tives and vehicular traffic conditions.…

The imbalanced Hubbard model features a transition between dynamic regimes depending on the mass ratio and coupling strength between two different particle species. A slowdown of the lighter particle transport can be attributed to an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-23 Mirko Daumann , Thomas Dahm

This paper examines the effects of hypercongestion mitigation by perimeter control and the introduction of autonomous vehicles on the spatial structures of cities. By incorporating a bathtub model, we develop a land use model where…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-24 Takao Dantsuji , Yuki Takayama

We investigate traffic flows using the kinetic Boltzmann equations with a Maxwell collision integral. This approach allows analytical determination of the transient behavior and the size distributions. The relaxation of the car and cluster…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Ben-Naim , P. L. Krapivsky

The development of smart city transport systems, including self-driving cars, leads to an increase in the threat of hostile interference in the processes of vehicle control. This interference may disrupt the normal functioning of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-02-13 Nikita V. Bykov

Computer simulation of the hopping charge transport in disordered organic materials has been carried out explicitly taking into account charge-charge interactions. This approach provides a possibility to take into account dynamic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-13 Sergey V. Novikov

Motivated by recent findings that human mobility is proxy for crime behavior in big cities and that there is a superlinear relationship between the people's movement and crime, this article aims to evaluate the impact of how these findings…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-04-27 Carlos Caminha , Vasco Furtado