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The characteristic features of traffic breakdown near on-ramp are analyzed. To describe this phenomenon the probabilistic description regarding the jam emergence as the formation of a large car cluster on highway inside the synchronized…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Reinhart Kuhne , Ihor Lubashevsky , Reinhard Mahnke , Jevgenijs Kaupush

This paper presents a new spatial-temporal nonlocal traffic flow model formulated to overcome the boundedness limitations inherent in classical local formulations. The model introduces an adaptive kernel that captures both spatial and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Animesh Biswas , Archie Huang , Shaurya Agarwal , Christopher Housholder

The Euler-Poisson (EP) system models the dynamics of a variety of physical processes, including charge transport, collisional plasmas, and certain cosmological wave phenomena. In this work, we establish sharp critical threshold conditions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Manas Bhatnagar , Hailiang Liu

Despite the importance of urban traffic flows, there are only a few theoretical approaches to determine fundamental relationships between macroscopic traffic variables such as the traffic density, the utilization, the average velocity, and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Dirk Helbing

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

We prove the well-posedness of weak entropy solutions of a scalar non-local traffic flow model with time delay. Existence is obtained by convergence of finite volume approximate solutions constructed by Lax-Friedrich and Hilliges-Weidlich…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Ilaria Ciaramaglia , Paola Goatin , Gabriella Puppo

We study the 1D pressureless Euler-Poisson equations with variable background states and nonlocal velocity alignment. Our main focus is the phenomenon of critical thresholds, where subcritical initial data lead to global regularity, while…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Kunhui Luan , Changhui Tan , Qiyu Wu

We consider a quasilinear system of hyperbolic equations that describes plane one-dimensional non-relativistic oscillations of electrons in a cold plasma with allowance for electron-ion collisions. Accounting for collisions leads to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-01-08 Olga Rozanova , Eugeniy Chizhonkov , Maria Delova

We present a phase diagram of the different kinds of congested traffic that are triggered by disturbances when passing ramps or other spatial inhomogeneities of a freeway. The simulation results obtained by the nonlocal, gas-kinetic-based…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dirk Helbing , Ansgar Hennecke , Martin Treiber

Multimodal traffic flow can reflect the health of the transportation system, and its prediction is crucial to urban traffic management. Recent works overemphasize spatio-temporal correlations of traffic flow, ignoring the physical concepts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Yu Zhao , Pan Deng , Junting Liu , Xiaofeng Jia , Mulan Wang

A nucleation model for the breakdown phenomenon in freeway free traffic flow at an on-ramp bottleneck is presented. This model, which can explain empirical results on the breakdown phenomenon, is based on assumptions of three-phase traffic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Boris S. Kerner , Sergey L. Klenov

In transportation systems (e.g. highways, railways, airports), traffic flows with distinct origin-destination pairs usually share common facilities and interact extensively. Such interaction is typically stochastic due to natural…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Li Jin , Yining Wen

The macroscopic traffic flow model is widely used for traffic control and management. To incorporate drivers' anticipative behaviors and to remove impractical speed discontinuity inherent in the classic Lighthill-Whitham-Richards (LWR)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Chenguang Zhao , Huan Yu

Traffic control is at the core of research in transportation engineering because it is one of the best practices for reducing traffic congestion. It has been shown in recent years that the traffic control problem involving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-10 Hao Liu , Christian Claudel , Randy Machemehl

We investigate the behavior of extended urban traffic networks within the framework of percolation theory by using real and synthetic traffic data. Our main focus shifts from the statistical properties of the cluster size distribution…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-07-21 Marco Cogoni , Giovanni Busonera

We study the microscopic time fluctuations of traffic-load and the global statistical properties of a dense traffic of particles on scale-free cyclic graphs. For a wide range of driving rates $R$ the traffic is stationary and the load…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bosiljka Tadic , Stefan Thurner , G. J. Rodgers

Critical incident stages identification and reasonable prediction of traffic incident duration are essential in traffic incident management. In this paper, we propose a traffic incident duration prediction model that simultaneously predicts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Kaiqun Fu , Taoran Ji , Liang Zhao , Chang-Tien Lu

Inthispaper,weintroduceanon-localPDE-ODEtrafficmodeldevotedtothedescriptionof a 1-to-1 junction with buffer. We present an existence result in the free flow case as well as a numerical method to approximate weak solutions in the general…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-04 F. A. Chiarello , J. Friedrich , S. GÖttlich

In recent works, we have proposed a stochastic cellular automaton model of traffic flow connecting two exactly solvable stochastic processes, i.e., the Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process and the Zero Range Process, with an additional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-05-19 Masahiro Kanai , Katsuhiro Nishinari , Tetsuji Tokihiro

In this paper, we present a class of systems of non-local conservation laws in one space-dimension incorporating time delay, which can be used to investigate the interaction between autonomous and human-driven vehicles, each characterized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Ilaria Ciaramaglia , Paola Goatin , Gabriella Puppo