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Traffic flow is a very prominent example of a driven non-equilibrium system. A characteristic phenomenon of traffic dynamics is the spontaneous and abrupt drop of the average velocity on a stretch of road leading to congestion. Such a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-10-29 Florian Knorr , Michael Schreckenberg

The main motivation of this work is to assess the validity of a LWR traffic flow model to model measurements obtained from trajectory data, and propose extensions of this model to improve it. A formulation for a discrete dynamical system is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-06 Mike Pereira , Pinar Boyraz Baykas , Balázs Kulcsár , Annika Lang

This work studies a macroscopic traffic flow model driven by a system of nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equations. Using Lie symmetry analysis, we determine the infinitesimal generators and construct an optimal system of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Urvashi Joshi , Aniruddha Kumar Sharma , Rajan Arora

We propose a mesoscopic modeling framework for optimal transportation networks with biological applications. The network is described in terms of a joint probability measure on the phase space of tensor-valued conductivity and position in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Jan Haskovec , Peter Markowich , Simone Portaro

We study the derivation of macroscopic traffic models from car-following vehicle dynamics by means of hydrodynamic limits of an Enskog-type kinetic description. We consider the superposition of Follow-the-Leader (FTL) interactions and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-06 Felisia Angela Chiarello , Benedetto Piccoli , Andrea Tosin

We propose a thermodynamically consistent phase-field model for the flow of a mixture of two different viscous incompressible fluids of equal density in a bounded domain. We prove the well-posedness of local-in-time strong solutions by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Helmut Abels , Alice Marveggio , Andrea Poiatti

As a typical self-driven many-particle system far from equilibrium, traffic flow exhibits diverse fascinating non-equilibrium phenomena, most of which are closely related to traffic flow stability and specifically the growth/dissipation…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-18 Rui Jiang , Mao-Bin Hu , H. M. Zhang , Zi-You Gao , Bin Jia , Qing-Song Wu , Bing Wang , Ming Yang

Driven many-particle systems with nonlinear interactions are known to often display multi-stability, i.e. depending on the respective initial condition, there may be different outcomes. Here, we study this phenomenon for traffic models,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Dirk Helbing , Mehdi Moussaid

We consider a class of nonlocal conservation laws modeling traffic flow, given by $ \partial_t u_\varepsilon + \partial_x(V(u_\varepsilon \ast \gamma_\varepsilon)\, u_\varepsilon) = 0 $ with $ \gamma_\varepsilon(\cdot) :=…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Nicola De Nitti , Kuang Huang

A discrete model of traffic on a multilane road is considered. The traffic is presented as particles movement with a deterministic component and a stochastic one. Formulas for the traffic characteristics have been found. The model can…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 A. P. Buslaev , V. M. Prikhodko , A. G. Tatashev , M. V. Yashina

A novel framework for density estimation under expectation constraints is proposed. The framework minimizes the Wasserstein distance between the estimated density and a prior, subject to the constraints that the expected value of a set of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-24 Yinan Hu , Esteban G. Tabak

A data-driven formulation of the optimal transport problem is presented and solved using adaptively refined meshes to decompose the problem into a sequence of finite linear programming problems. Both the marginal distributions and their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Weikun Chen , Esteban G. Tabak

Similar to the treatment of dense gases, fluid-dynamic equations for the dynamics of congested vehicular traffic are derived from Enskog-like kinetic equations. These contain additional terms due to the anisotropic vehicle interactions. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dirk Helbing

Among generative neural models, flow matching techniques stand out for their simple applicability and good scaling properties. Here, velocity fields of curves connecting a simple latent and a target distribution are learned. Then the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Christian Wald , Gabriele Steidl

We provide a new existence result for weak solutions to the one-dimensional Euler equations with a maximal density constraint, corresponding to a unilateral constraint on the density. Such models arise in the description of congestion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Charlotte Perrin

Two-scale models pose a promising approach in simulating reactive flow and transport in evolving porous media. Classically, homogenized flow and transport equations are solved on the macroscopic scale, while effective parameters are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Stephan Gärttner , Peter Knabner , Nadja Ray

We investigate both experimentally and theoretically the traffic of particles flowing in microfluidic obstacle networks. We show that the traffic dynamics is a non-linear process: the particle current does not scale with the particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 Nicolas Champagne , Romain Vasseur , Adrien Montourcy , Denis Bartolo

This paper offers an integrative data-driven physics-inspired approach to model and control traffic congestion in a resilient and efficient manner. While existing physics-based approaches commonly assign density and flow traffic states by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-03 Hossein Rastgoftar , Ella Atkins

In one-dimensional, heterogeneous systems, the whole traffic dynamics depend strongly on the behavior of the leading vehicle. This result holds for a class of vehicular traffic models satisfying the following properties. The interactions…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-06-03 Ricardo S. P. Lopes

We study the estimation problem of distribution-on-distribution regression, where both predictors and responses are probability measures. Existing approaches typically rely on a global optimal transport map or tangent-space linearization,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-17 Inga Girshfeld , Xiaohui Chen