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Active travel is an essential component in intelligent transportation systems. Cycling, as a form of active travel, shares the road space with motorised traffic which often affects the cyclists' safety and comfort and therefore peoples'…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Chia-Yen Chiang , Ruikang Zhong , Jennifer Ding , Joseph Wood , Stephen Bee , Mona Jaber

In this contribution first results of experiments on pedestrian flow through bottlenecks are presented and then compared to simulation results obtained with the Social Force Model in the Vissim simulation framework. Concerning the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2008-09-10 Tobias Kretz , Stefan Hengst , Peter Vortisch

We present experimental results obtained for a one-dimensional flow using high precision motion capture. The full pedestrians' trajectories are obtained. In this paper, we focus on the fundamental diagram, and on the relation between the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-03-30 Asja Jelić , Cécile Appert-Rolland , Samuel Lemercier , Julien Pettré

Traffic waves are phenomena that emerge when the vehicular density exceeds a critical threshold. Considering the presence of increasingly automated vehicles in the traffic stream, a number of research activities have focused on the…

Understanding the motivators and deterrents to cycling is essential for creating infrastructure that gets more people to adopt cycling as a mode of transport. This paper demonstrates a new approach to support the prioritization of cycling…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-11 Hussein Mahfouz , Elsa Arcaute , Robin Lovelace

Shifting to cycling in urban areas reduces greenhouse gas emissions and improves public health. Street-level bicycle volume information would aid cities in planning targeted infrastructure improvements to encourage cycling and provide civil…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Silke K. Kaiser , Nadja Klein , Lynn H. Kaack

A model equation has been proposed to describe bimodal features in vehicular traffic flows. The dynamics of the bimodal distribution reveals the existence of a fixed point that is connected to itself by a homoclinic trajectory. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-04-15 Arjun Mullick , Arnab K. Ray

Increasing the modal share of bicycle traffic to reduce carbon emissions, reduce urban car traffic, and to improve the health of citizens, requires a shift away from car-centric city planning. For this, traffic planners often rely on…

Fluidisation is the process by which the weight of a bed of particles is supported by a gas flow passing through it from below. When fluidised materials flow down an incline, the dynamics of the motion differ from their non-fluidised…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-11 D. E. Jessop , A. J. Hogg , M. A. Gilbertson , C. Schoof

In this work we study the effect of a traffic light system on the flow of a single lane road by proposing a traffic model based on a cellular automaton that also includes behavioral considerations. We focus on the macroscopic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-02-03 A. Chacoma , M. N. Kuperman , G. Abramson

We investigate dynamical properties of traffic flow using the stochastic car-following model with modified optimal velocity on circular road. The safety distance following the two-second rule and autonomous vehicles, acting as agents,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-03-18 Manit Klawtanong , Surachate Limkumnerd

Bike-sharing is an environmentally friendly shared mobility mode, but its self-loop phenomenon, where bikes are returned to the same station after several time usage, significantly impacts equity in accessing its services. Therefore, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Yichen Wang , Qing Yu , Yancun Song

Recently, motivated by the pioneer works in revealing the small-world effect and scale-free property of various real-life networks, many scientists devote themselves to studying complex networks. In this paper, we give a brief review on the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Bing-Hong Wang , Tao Zhou

Cycling is an outdoor activity with massive health benefits, and an effective solution towards sustainable urban transport. Despite these benefits and the recent rising popularity of cycling, most countries still have a negligible uptake.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Alice Battiston , Ludovico Napoli , Paolo Bajardi , André Panisson , Alan Perotti , Michael Szell , Rossano Schifanella

In animal societies as well as in human crowds, many observed collective behaviours result from self-organized processes based on local interactions among individuals. However, models of crowd dynamics are still lacking a systematic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-09-30 Mehdi Moussaid , Dirk Helbing , Simon Garnier , Anders Johansson , Maud Combe , Guy Theraulaz

We consider a discrete-time dynamical system in a car-following context. The system was recently introduced to parsimoniously model human driving behavior based on utility maximization. The parameters of the model were calibrated using…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Suzhou Huang , Jian Hu

We study vehicular traffic on a road with multiple lanes and dense, unidirectional traffic following the traditional Lighthill-Whitham-Richards model where the velocity in each lane depends only on the density in the same lane. The model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Helge Holden , Nils Henrik Risebro

In heterogeneous disordered traffic, where various vehicle types operate without strict lane discipline, self-organized vehicle groups often emerge. While the formation of such groups has been recognized, their influence on macroscopic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-23 Akihito Nagahama , Nichika Asai , Claudio Feliciani , Xiaolu Jia , Katsuhiro Nishinari

The theory of urban traffic flow has been developed and new types of meta-automata have emerged and simulate realistic traffic conditions relatively well. Among these models, the brake light model can simulate the three-phase traffic flow…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Rui Shen

We study the relation between the average traffic flow and the vehicle density on road networks that we call 2D-traffic fundamental diagram. We show that this diagram presents mainly four phases. We analyze different cases. First, the case…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-06 Nadir Farhi , Maurice Goursat , Jean-Pierre Quadrat