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Digital technology is fundamentally transforming human mobility. Route choices in particular are greatly affected by the availability of traffic data, increased connectivity of data sources and cheap access to computational resources.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-06-01 David-Maximilian Storch , Malte Schröder , Marc Timme

Shared mobility-on-demand services are expanding rapidly in cities around the world. As a prominent example, app-based ridesourcing is becoming an integral part of many urban transportation ecosystems. Despite the centrality, limited public…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-11-02 J Soria , Y Chen , A Stathopoulos

We show that the spontaneous symmetry breaking can be defined also for finite systems based on the properly defined jump probability between the ground states in the 2d and 3d Ising models on a square and a cubic lattice respectively. Our…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-25 Fotis K. Diakonos , Yiannis F. Contoyiannis , Stelios M. Potirakis

The concepts of symmetry and its breakdown are investigated in two different terms according to whether the resulting asymmetry is universal or only obtained for a special configuration: we shall illustrate this by considering in the first…

General Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Luca Fabbri

Symmetry-breaking transitions are a well-understood phenomenon of closed quantum systems in quantum optics, condensed matter, and high energy physics. However, symmetry breaking in open systems is less thoroughly understood, in part due to…

The majority of research on safety in autonomous vehicles has been conducted in structured and controlled environments. However, there is a scarcity of research on safety in unregulated pedestrian areas, especially when interacting with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Enrico Del Re , Novel Certad , Joshua Varughese , Cristina Olaverri-Monreal

Using the mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking of scale invariance obtained from the dynamics of maximal rank field strengths, it is possible to spontaneously generate confining behavior. Introducing a dilaton field, the study of non…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 E. I. Guendelman

Collective decision-making is a widespread phenomenon in both biological and artificial systems, where individuals reach a consensus through social interactions. While traditional models of opinion dynamics and contagion focus on pairwise…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-02 David March-Pons , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras , M. Carmen Miguel

The increasing, high-risk interactions between vehicles and vulnerable micromobility users, such as e-scooter riders, challenge vehicular safety functions and Automated Driving (AD) techniques, often resulting in severe consequences due to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Abin Mathew , Zhitong He , Lingxi Li , Yaobin Chen

The emergence of cooperation in the groups of interacting agents is one of the most fascinating phenomena observed in many complex systems studied in social science and ecology, even in the situations where one would expect the agent to use…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-12 Jarosław Adam Miszczak

With the recent development of analytical methods for studying the collective dynamics of coupled oscillator systems, the dynamics of communities of coupled oscillators have received a great deal of attention in the nonlinear dynamics…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-02-25 Per Sebastian Skardal

Spatial evolution game has traditionally assumed that players interact with neighbors on a single network, which is isolated and not influenced by other systems. We introduce the simple game model into the interdependent networks composed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-20 Qing Jin , Zhen Wang

Scramble intersections stand as compelling examples of complex systems, shedding light on the pressing challenge of urban mobility. In this paper, we introduce a model aimed at unraveling the statistical intricacies of pedestrian crossing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-04 Eduardo V. Stock , Roberto da Silva

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

Nonreciprocal interaction crowd systems, such as human-human, human-vehicle, and human-robot systems, often have serious impacts on pedestrian safety and social order. A more comprehensive understanding of these systems is needed to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-03 Shaocong Xie , Rui Ye , Xiaolian Li , Zhongyi Huang , Shuchao Cao , Wei Lv , Hong He , Ping Zhang , Zhiming Fang , Jun Zhang , Weiguo Song

Cooperative transport is a striking phenomenon where multiple agents join forces to transit a payload too heavy for the individual. While social animals such as ants are routinely observed to coordinate transport at scale, reproducing the…

Research on synchronization of coupled oscillators has helped explain how uniform behavior emerges in populations of non-uniform systems. But explaining how uniform populations engage in sustainable non-uniform synchronization may prove to…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-03-15 Adilson E. Motter

The culture of sharing instead of ownership is sharply increasing in individuals behaviors. Particularly in transportation, concepts of sharing a ride in either carpooling or ridesharing have been recently adopted. An efficient optimization…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Pooyan Ehsani , Jia Yuan Yu

An interesting example for collective decision making is the so-called Mexican wave during which the spectators in a stadium leap to their feet with their arms up and then sit down again following those to their left (right) with a small…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Illes J. Farkas , Tamas Vicsek

Spontaneous symmetry breaking plays a pivotal role in physics ranging from the emergence of elementary particles to the phase transitions of matter. The spontaneous breaking of continuous time translation symmetry leads to a novel state of…