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We propose an efficient method for reconstructing traffic density with low penetration rate of probe vehicles. Specifically, we rely on measuring only the initial and final positions of a small number of cars which are generated using…

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We present a new class of macroscopic models for pedestrian flows. Each individual is assumed to move towards a fixed target, deviating from the best path according to the instantaneous crowd distribution. The resulting equation is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-21 Rinaldo M. Colombo , Mauro Garavello , Magali Lécureux-Mercier

In this paper, a useful reinterpretation of the city as a porous medium justifies the application of well-known models on fluid dynamics to develop a multi-model study of urban air pollution due to traffic flow in a large city. Thus, to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-21 N. Garcia-Chan , L. J. Alvarez-Vazquez , A. Martinez , M. E. Vazquez-Mendez

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 study kinetic models for traffic flow characterized by the property of producing backward propagating waves. These waves may be identified with the phenomenon of stop-and-go waves typically observed on highways. In particular, a refined…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-10 M. Herty , G. Puppo , G. Visconti

Many headway-based car-following models describe longitudinal adaptation through linear relaxation laws, which can produce unrealistically large accelerations and limit the physical consistency of microscopic traffic dynamics. Motivated by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Nizhum Rahman , Trachette L. Jackson

Modeling heterogeneous and multi-lane traffic flow is essential for understanding and controlling complex transportation systems. In this work, we consider three vehicle populations: two classes of human-driven vehicles (cars and trucks)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Maria Teresa Chiri , Christopher Denaro , Xiaoqian Gong , Benedetto Piccoli

The simulation of traffic flow on networks requires knowledge on the behavior across traffic intersections. For macroscopic models based on hyperbolic conservation laws there exist nowadays many ad-hoc models describing this behavior. Based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Michael Herty , Niklas Kolbe

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

Exact mean field equations are derived analytically to give the fundamental diagrams, i.e., the average speed - car density relations, for the Fukui-Ishibashi one-dimensional traffic flow cellular automaton model of high speed vehicles…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Bing-Hong Wang , Lei Wang , P. M. Hui , Bambi Hu

We introduce a cellular automaton model coupled with a transport equation for flows on graphs. The direction of the flow is described by a switching process where the switching probability dynamically changes according to the value of the…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2013-07-02 Pierre Degond , Michael Herty , Jian-Guo Liu

We study a 1D scalar conservation law whose non-local flux has a single spatial discontinuity. This model is intended to describe traffic flow on a road with rough conditions. We approximate the problem through an upwind-type numerical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-30 Felisia Angela Chiarello , Harold Deivi Contreras , Luis Miguel Villada

A macroscopic model is proposed to depict the traffic dynamics involved in urban traffic systems. The link dynamics are described based on the cell-transmission model and bounded by the link capacities, while the flow dynamics are proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Yicheng Zhang

When a new vehicle joins a lane, those behind may have to temporarily slow to accommodate them. Changing lane can be forced due to lane drops or junctions, but may also take place spontaneously at discretion of drivers, and recent studies…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-15 Jeremy Worsfold , Tim Rogers

Macroscopic traffic flow models are essential for analysing traffic dynamics in highways and urban roads. While second-order models like METANET capture non-equilibrium traffic states, they often produce unrealistic speed predictions, such…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-25 Weiming Zhao , Claudio Roncoli , Mehmet Yildirimoglu

We present experimental evidence of multiple blood flow configurations in a relatively simple microfluidic network under constant inlet conditions. We provide evidence of multistability and unsteady dynamics and find good agreement with a…

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

This contribution investigates an original stochastic approach for the emergence of stop-and-go waves in traffic flow, a collective phenomenon with significant safety and environmental implications. Using a stable nonlinear car-following…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-04 Raphael Korbmacher , Parthib Khound , Antoine Tordeux , Frank Gronwald

While macroscopic models for single or multi-lane traffic flow are well established, these models are not applicable to the dynamics and characteristics of disordered traffic which is characterized by widely different types of vehicles and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-27 Shrey Agrawal , Venkatesan Kanagaraj , Martin Treiber

We introduce a stochastic traffic flow model to describe random traffic accidents on a single road. The model is a piecewise deterministic process incorporating traffic accidents and is based on a scalar conservation law with…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-12-13 Simone Göttlich , Stephan Knapp