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Historically, traffic modelling approaches have taken either a particle-like (microscopic) approach, or a gas-like (meso- or macroscopic) approach. Until recently with the introduction of mean-field games to the controls community, there…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-06 Amoolya Tirumalai , John S. Baras

The aim of this work is to introduce a two-dimensional macroscopic traffic model for multiple populations of vehicles. Starting from the paper [20], where a two-dimensional model for a single class of vehicles is proposed, we extend the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-04 Caterina Balzotti , Simone Göttlich

Highway vehicular traffic is an inherently multi-agent problem. Traffic jams can appear and disappear mysteriously. We develop a method for traffic flow control that is applied at the vehicular level via mean-field games. We begin this work…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Amoolya Tirumalai , John S. Baras

We consider transport processes on metric graphs with time-dependent velocities and show that, under continuity assumption of the velocity coefficients, the corresponding non-autonomous abstract Cauchy problem is well-posed by means of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Christian Budde , Marjeta Kramar Fijavž

Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs), unlike conventional cars, will utilise the whole space of intersections and cross in a lane-free order. This paper formulates such a lane-free crossing of intersections as a multi-objective optimal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-15 Mahdi Amouzadi , Mobolaji O. Orisatoki , Arash M. Dizqah

We discuss numerical strategies to deal with PDE systems describing traffic flows, taking into account a density threshold, which restricts the vehicles density in the situation of congestion. These models are obtained through asymptotic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-13 Florent Berthelin , Thierry Goudon , Bastien Polizzi , Magali Ribot

Recent transportation research highlights the potential of autonomous vehicles (AV) to improve traffic flow mobility as they are able to maintain smaller car-following distances. However, as a unique class of ground robots, AVs are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Hangyu Li , Xiaotong Sun , Chenglin Zhuang , Xiaopeng Li

In this paper we consider the problem of estimating emissions due to vehicular traffic on complex networks, and minimizing their effect by regulating traffic at junctions. For the traffic evolution, we consider a Generic Second Order Model,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-03-10 Caterina Balzotti , Maya Briani , Benedetto Piccoli

Macroscopic traffic flow is stochastic, but the physics-informed deep learning methods currently used in transportation literature embed deterministic PDEs and produce point-valued outputs; the stochasticity of the governing dynamics plays…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Wuping Xin

The present paper proposes a stochastic model of the traffic flow. This model has a discrete set of states and the continuous time. The model is a generalization of the discrete stochastis model that has been considered in a previous paper…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. P. Buslaev , A. G. Tatashev , M. V. Yashina

In this volume a theory for models of transport in the presence of a free boundary is developed. Macroscopic laws of transport are described by PDEs. When the system is open, there are several mechanisms to couple the system with the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-07-28 Gioia Carinci , Anna De Masi , Cristian Giardinà , Errico Presutti

We present a macroscopic traffic flow model where standard vehicles coexist with vehicles informed on the traffic distribution. The resulting mixed nonlocal-local integro-differential PDEs is proved to generate a locally Lipschitz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Rinaldo M. Colombo , Mauro Garavello , Claudia Nocita

The steady development of motor vehicle technology will enable cars of the near future to assume an ever increasing role in the decision making and control of the vehicle itself. In the foreseeable future, cars will have the ability to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-05-06 Philip Dasler , David M. Mount

We investigate the behaviour of an original traffic model. The model considers a single multi-lane street, populated by autonomous vehicles directed from either end to the other. Lanes have no intrinsic directionality, and the vehicles are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Federico Polito , Fergal Dalton

This paper develops boundary feedback control laws in order to damp out traffic oscillations in the congested regime of the linearized two-class Aw-Rascle (AR) traffic model. The macroscopic second-order two-class AR traffic model consists…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-17 Mark Burkhardt , Huan Yu , Miroslav Krstic

One of the primary challenges in urban autonomous vehicle decision-making and planning lies in effectively managing intricate interactions with diverse traffic participants characterized by unpredictable movement patterns. Additionally,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Keqi Shu , Minghao Ning , Ahmad Alghooneh , Shen Li , Mohammad Pirani , Amir Khajepour

A recently proposed paradigm for vehicular traffic in the era of CAV (connected and automated vehicles), called TrafficFluid, involves lane-free vehicle movement. Lane-free traffic implies that incremental road widening (narrowing) leads to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-18 Milad Malekzadeh , Ioannis Papamichail , Markos Papageorgiou , Klaus Bogenberger

This article aims to study coupled mean-field equation and ODEs with discrete events motivated by vehicular traffic flow. Precisely, multi-lane traffic flow in presence of human-driven and autonomous vehicles is considered, with the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Xiaoqian Gong , Benedetto Piccoli , Giuseppe Visconti

We have revealed physical features of autonomous driving in the framework of the three-phase traffic theory for which there is no fixed time headway to the preceding vehicle. A comparison with the classical model approach to autonomous…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-03-27 Boris S. Kerner

The paper provides results for a non-standard, hyperbolic, 1-D, nonlinear traffic flow model on a bounded domain. The model consists of two first-order PDEs with a dynamic boundary condition that involves the time derivative of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-10 Iasson Karafyllis , Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis , Markos Papageorgiou