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Stop-and-go waves in road traffic are complex collective phenomena with significant implications for traffic engineering, safety and the environment. Despite decades of research, understanding and controlling these dynamics remains…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-08-15 Matthias Ehrhardt , Antoine Tordeux

It is known that inhomogeneous second-order macroscopic traffic models can reproduce the phantom traffic jam phenomenon: whenever the sub-characteristic condition is violated, uniform traffic flow is unstable, and small perturbations grow…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-17 Rabie A. Ramadan , Rodolfo Ruben Rosales , Benjamin Seibold

In oscillatory reaction-diffusion systems, time-delay feedback can lead to the instability of uniform oscillations with respect to formation of standing waves. Here, we investigate how the presence of additive, Gaussian white noise can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-17 Michael Stich , Amit K Chattopadhyay

The proposed stochastic model for pedestrian dynamics is based on existing approaches using cellular automata, combined with substantial extensions, to compensate the deficiencies resulting of the discrete grid structure. This agent motion…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-01 Michael Schultz

We study a hierarchy of models based on kinetic equations for the descriptions of traffic flow in presence of autonomous and human--driven vehicles. The autonomous cars considered in this paper are thought of as vehicles endowed with some…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-10-11 M. Herty , G. Puppo , G. Visconti

By analyzing empirical time headway distributions of traffic flow, a hypothesis about the underlying stochastic process can be drawn. The results found lead to the assumption that the headways $T_i$ of individual vehicles follow a linear…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Wagner

We study spatially non-homogeneous kinetic models for vehicular traffic flow. Classical formulations, as for instance the BGK equation, lead to unconditionally unstable solutions in the congested regime of traffic. We address this issue by…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-07-22 Michael Herty , Gabriella Puppo , Sebastiano Roncoroni , Giuseppe Visconti

Experimental results for congested pedestrian traffic are presented. For data analysis we apply a method providing measurements on an individual scale. The resulting velocity-density relation shows a coexistence of moving and stopping…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-06-18 A. Seyfried , A. Portz , A. Schadschneider

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

We analyze the effects of noise on the traveling wave dynamics in neural fields. The noise influences the dynamics on two scales: first, it causes fluctuations in the wave profile, and second, it causes a random shift in the phase of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-08-06 Eva Lang

In this work, we show that the inverse-$\lambda$ shape in the fundamental diagram of traffic flow can be produced dynamically by a simple nonlinear mesoscopic model with stochastic noises. The proposed model is based on the gas-kinetic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-28 Wei-Liang Qian , Adriano F. Siqueira , Romuel F. Machado , Kai Lin , Ted William Grant

It is understood that congestion in traffic can be interpreted in terms of the instability of the equation of dynamic motion. The evolution of a traffic system from an unstable or metastable state to a globally stable state bears a strong…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-06 Wei-Liang Qian , Bin Wang , Kai Lin , Romuel F. Machado , Yogiro Hama

We consider stochastic dynamics of a particle on a plane in presence of two noises and a confining parabolic potential - an analog of the experimentally-relevant Brownian Gyrator (BG) model. In contrast to the standard BG model, we suppose…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-16 Timothée Herbeau , Leonid Pastur , Pascal Viot , Gleb Oshanin

Most car-following models show a transition from laminar to ``congested'' flow and vice versa. Deterministic models often have a density range where a disturbance needs a sufficiently large critical amplitude to move the flow from the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kai Nagel , Christopher Kayatz , Peter Wagner

The behavior of pedestrians shows certain regularities, which can be described by quantitative (partly stochastic) models. The models are based on the behavior of individual pedestrians, which depends on the pedestrian intentions and on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dirk Helbing

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

Single-file dynamics has been studied intensively, both experimentally and theoretically. It shows interesting collective effects, such as stop-and-go waves, which are validation cornerstones for any agent-based modeling approach of traffic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-16 Jakob Cordes , Mohcine Chraibi , Antoine Tordeux , Andreas Schadschneider

Stochastic systems characterised by a random driving in a form of the general stable noise are considered. The particle experiences long rests due to the traps the density of which is position-dependent and obeys a power-law form attributed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-06 Tomasz Srokowski

Nonlinear wave phenomena such as stop-and-go traffic patterns are widely observed in vehicular flow but remain challenging to describe within a rigorous mathematical framework. Motivated by this, we investigate nonlinear wave structures in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Kota Ikeda , Tomoyuki Miyaji

Complex coherent dynamics is present in a wide variety of neural systems. A typical example is the voltage transitions between up and down states observed in cortical areas in the brain. In this work, we study this phenomenon via a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-19 Jorge F. Mejias , Hilbert J. Kappen , Joaquin J. Torres