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With the rapid growth of traffic sensors deployed, a massive amount of traffic flow data are collected, revealing the long-term evolution of traffic flows and the gradual expansion of traffic networks. How to accurately forecasting these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Xu Chen , Junshan Wang , Kunqing Xie

We present a macroscopic traffic flow model that extends existing fluid-like models by an additional term containing the second derivative of the safe velocity. Two qualitatively different shapes of the safe velocity are explored: a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Rosswog , P. Wagner

We develop a discrete Boltzmann-type model that uses dynamics in phase space to describe the behavior of traffic flows. Firstly, we model the traffic flow at mesoscopic scale using dynamics in phase space, which is considered as an…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2023-11-27 Zhizhen Zhang , Changhong Lu

Traffic Intersections are vital to urban road networks as they regulate the movement of people and goods. However, they are regions of conflicting trajectories and are prone to accidents. Deep Generative models of traffic dynamics at…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Yash Ranjan , Rahul Sengupta , Anand Rangarajan , Sanjay Ranka

Traffic microsimulation is a crucial tool that uses microscopic traffic models, such as car-following and lane-change models, to simulate the trajectories of individual agents. This digital platform allows for the assessment of the impact…

Applications · Statistics 2024-10-01 Yanbing Wang , Felipe de Souza , Dominik Karbowski

Based on experimental traffic data obtained from German and US highways, we propose a novel two-dimensional first-order macroscopic traffic flow model. The goal is to reproduce a detailed description of traffic dynamics for the real road…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-11-10 Michael Herty , Adrian Fazekas , Giuseppe Visconti

Traffic congestion at intersections is a significant issue in urban areas, leading to increased commute times, safety hazards, and operational inefficiencies. This study aims to develop a predictive model for congestion at intersections in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Tara Kelly , Jessica Gupta

We introduce a formalism to deal with the microscopic modeling of vehicular traffic on a road network. Traffic on each road is uni-directional, and the dynamics of each vehicle is described by a Follow-the-Leader model. From a mathematical…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-25 Rinaldo M. Colombo , Helge Holden , Francesca Marcellini

We consider a model of Internet congestion control that represents the randomly varying number of flows present in a network where bandwidth is shared fairly between document transfers. We study critical fluid models obtained as formal…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-07 F. P. Kelly , R. J. Williams

Biological machines like molecular motors and enzymes operate in dynamic cycles representable as stochastic flows on networks. Current stochastic dynamics describes such flows on fixed networks. Here, we develop a scalable approach to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-02 Ying-Jen Yang , Ken A. Dill

We provide a model to understand how adverse weather conditions modify traffic flow dynamic. We first prove that the microscopic Free Flow Speed of the vehicles is changed and then provide a rule to model this change. For this, we consider…

In this work, a family of finite volume discretization schemes for LWR-type first order traffic flow models (with possible on- and off-ramps) is proposed: the Traffic Reaction Model (TRM). These schemes yield systems of ODEs that are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-03 M. Pereira , B. Kulcsár , Gy. Lipták , M. Kovács , G. Szederkényi

In transportation networks, a spontaneous jamming transition is often observed, e.g in urban road networks and airport networks. Because of this instability, flow distribution is significantly imbalanced on a macroscopic level. To mitigate…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-27 Takahiro Ezaki , Ryosuke Nishi , Katsuhiro Nishinari

The robustness and integrity of IP networks require efficient tools for traffic monitoring and analysis, which scale well with traffic volume and network size. We address the problem of optimal large-scale flow monitoring of computer…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-06-26 Michael Kallitsis , Stilian Stoev , George Michailidis

We study a class of dynamical multi-commodity flow networks in transportation networks. These are modeled as dynamical systems describing the evolution of the densities of a number of different commodities across the cells of a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Davide Sipione , Giacomo Como

The present paper proposes a stochastic model of the traffic flow. This model has a discrete set of states and the continuous time. The model is a generalization of the discrete stochastis model that has been considered in a previous paper…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. P. Buslaev , A. G. Tatashev , M. V. Yashina

This paper presents two one-dimensional mathematical models describing automobile traffic flow on straight road segments at a signalized intersection. When the traffic light is permissive, the flow density and velocity are obtained by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Akbota Senkebayeva

Simple physical models based on fluid mechanics have long been used to understand the flow of vehicular traffic on freeways; analytically tractable models of flow on an urban grid, however, have not been as extensively explored. In an ideal…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-10-21 Mark J Panaggio , Bertrand J Ottino-Löffler , Peiguang Hu , Daniel M Abrams

The Traffic Assignment Problem is a fundamental, yet computationally expensive, task in transportation modeling, especially for large-scale networks. Traditional methods require iterative simulations to reach equilibrium, making real-time…

The congestion formation on a urban road network is one of the key issue for the development of a sustainable mobility in the future smart cities. In this work we propose a reductionist approach studying the stationary states of a simple…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-05-28 Lorenzo Di Meco , Mirko Degli Esposti , Federico Bellisardi , Armando Bazzani