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Replacing positivity constraints by an entropy barrier is popular to approximate solutions of linear programs. In the special case of the optimal transport problem, this technique dates back to the early work of Schr\"odinger. This approach…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Guillaume Carlier , Vincent Duval , Gabriel Peyré , Bernhard Schmitzer

This paper investigates the mathematical modeling and the stability of multi-lane traffic in the microscopic scale, studying a model based on two interaction terms. To do this we propose simple lane changing conditions and we study the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Matteo Piu , Gabriella Puppo

In this work, we propose a novel phase-field model for the simulation of two-phase flows that is accurate, conservative, bounded, and robust. The proposed model conserves the mass of each of the phases, and results in bounded transport of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Suhas S. Jain

This study addresses multilane vehicular traffic modelling, focusing on the transition between microscopic (individual vehicle-based) to macroscopic (aggregate flow-based) descriptions. While previous research on multilane traffic has…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-09 Matteo Piu , Giuseppe Visconti , Gabriella Puppo

The gas-kinetic foundation of fluid-dynamic traffic equations suggested in previous papers [Physica A 219, 375 and 391 (1995)] is further refined by applying the theory of dense gases and granular materials to the Boltzmann-like traffic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Dirk Helbing

We study a message passing model, applicable also to traffic problems. The model is implemented in a discrete lattice, where particles move towards their destination, with fluctuations around the minimal distance path. A repulsive…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 I. Campos , A. Tarancon , F. Clerot , L. A. Fernandez

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

In this paper we prove the existence of weak solutions for a thermodynamically consistent phase-field model introduced in [26] in two and three dimensions of space. We use a notion of solution inspired by [18], where the pointwise internal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-31 Robert Lasarzik , Elisabetta Rocca , Giulio Schimperna

The one-dimensional Aw-Rascle (AR) system has become a cornerstone of macroscopic models for single-lane vehicular traffic. A possible generalization of this model to a multi-dimensional setting is the so-called dissipative AR model, which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Ewelina Zatorska

In this paper, urban traffic is modeled using dual graph representation of urban transportation network where roads are mapped to nodes and intersections are mapped to links. The proposed model considers both the navigation of vehicles on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Mao-Bin Hu , Rui Jiang , Yong-Hong Wu , Wen-Xu Wang , Qing-Song Wu

In this paper we study a model for traffic flow on networks based on a hyperbolic system of conservation laws with discontinuous flux. Each equation describes the density evolution of vehicles having a common path along the network. In this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-17 Maya Briani , Emiliano Cristiani

We prove global existence of weak solutions for a version of one velocity Baer-Nunziato system with dissipation describing a mixture of two non interacting viscous compressible fluids in a piecewise regular Lipschitz domain with general…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-12 Stanislav Kracmar , Young-Sam Kwon , Sarka Necasova , Antonin Novotny

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

A generic proecological traffic control model for the urban street canyon is proposed by development of advanced continuum field hydrodynamical control model of the street canyon. The model of optimal control of street canyon dynamics is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Maciej M. Duras

This letter propose a new model for characterizing traffic dynamics in scale-free networks. With a replotted road map of cities with roads mapped to vertices and intersections to edges, and introducing the road capacity L and its handling…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Mao-Bin Hu , Wen-Xu Wang , Rui Jiang , Qing-Song Wu , Bing-Hong Wang , Yong-Hong Wu

This paper studies a stochastic model that describes the evolution of vehicle densities in a road network. It is consistent with the class of (deterministic) kinematic wave models, which describe traffic flows on the basis of conservation…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-02-11 Michel Mandjes , Jaap Storm

We propose a stochastic model for the intersection of two urban streets. The traffic state at the crossroads is controlled by a set of traffic lights, which periodically switch to red and green with a total period of T. Vehicular dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ebrahim Fouladvand , Nima Hamedani Radja

We prove the stability of entropy weak solutions of a class of scalar conservation laws with non-local flux arising in traffic modelling. We obtain an estimate of the dependence of the solution with respect to the kernel function, the speed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-18 Felisia Angela Chiarello , Paola Goatin , Elena Rossi

In this paper we present a new kind of model for traffic flow which couples a first-order macroscopic approach with a second-order microscopic approach, avoiding any interface or boundary conditions between them. The Euler-Godunov scheme…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-04 Emiliano Cristiani , Elisa Iacomini

The basic model for incompressible two-phase flows with phase transitions is derived from basic principles and shown to be thermodynamically consistent in the sense that the total energy is conserved and the total entropy is nondecreasing.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Jan Pruess , Senjo Shimizu , Yoshihiro Shibata , Gieri Simonett