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In this paper we study a phase transition model for vehicular traffic flows. Two phases are taken into account, according to whether the traffic is light or heavy. We assume that the two phases have a non-empty intersection, the so called…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-23 Mohamed Benyahia , Carlotta Donadello , Nikodem Dymski , Massimiliano D. Rosini

A class of parabolic cross-diffusion systems modeling the interaction of an arbitrary number of population species is analyzed in a bounded domain with no-flux boundary conditions. The equations are formally derived from a random-walk…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-20 Nicola Zamponi , Ansgar Jüngel

The growth of the number of people in the monitoring scene may increase the probability of security threat, which makes crowd counting more and more important. Most of the existing approaches estimate the number of pedestrians within one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Liqing Gao , Yanzhang Wang , Xin Ye , Jian Wang

The empirical relation between density and velocity of pedestrian movement is not completely analyzed, particularly with regard to the `microscopic' causes which determine the relation at medium and high densities. The simplest system for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 Armin Seyfried , Bernhard Steffen , Wolfram Klingsch , Maik Boltes

In two intersecting many-particle streams, one can often find the emergence of oscillatory patterns. Here, we investigate the interaction of pedestrians with vehicles, when they try to cross a road. A numerical study of this coupled…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Dirk Helbing , Rui Jiang , Martin Treiber

This paper tackles the approximation of surface diffusion flow using a Cahn--Hilliard-type model. We introduce and analyze a new second order variational phase field model which associates the classical Cahn--Hilliard energy with two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-09 Elie Bretin , Simon Masnou , Arnaud Sengers , Garry Terii

The gas-kinetic foundation of fluid-dynamic traffic equations suggested in previous papers [Physica A 219, 375 and 391 (1995)] is further refined by applying the theory of dense gases and granular materials to the Boltzmann-like traffic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Dirk Helbing

This paper addresses the existence and regularity of weak solutions for a fully parabolic model of chemotaxis, with prevention of overcrowding, that degenerates in a two-sided fashion, including an extra nonlinearity represented by a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Mostafa Bendahmane , Raimund Brger , Ricardo Ruiz Baier , José Miguel Urbano

This paper presents a pedestrian motion model that includes both low level trajectory patterns, and high level discrete transitions. The inclusion of both levels creates a more general predictive model, allowing for more meaningful…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Yutao Han , Rina Tse , Mark Campbell

A new class of integro-partial differential equation models is derived for the prediction of granular flow dynamics. These models are obtained using a novel limiting averaging method (inspired by techniques employed in the derivation of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 Denis Blackmore , Roman Samulyak , Anthony Rosato

To understand the process of pattern formation in a low-density granular flow, we propose a simple particle model. This model considers spherical particles moving over an inclined flat surface based on three forces: gravity as the driving…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-04-24 Hirofumi Niiya , Akinori Awazu , Hiraku Nishimori

We consider a linearised model of incompressible inviscid flow. Using a regularisation based on the Hodge Laplacian we prove existence and uniqueness of weak solutions for smooth domains. The model problem is then discretised using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-09 Gabriel Barrenechea , Erik Burman , Johnny Guzmàn

Modeling of crowds of pedestrians has been considered in this paper from different aspects. Based on fractional microscopic model that may be much more close to reality, a fractional macroscopic model has been proposed using conservation…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-02-04 Ke-cai Cao , YangQuan Chen , Dan Stuart

Pedestrian dynamics models the walking movement of individuals in a crowd. It has recently been used in the analysis of procedures to reduce the risk of disease spread in airplanes, relying on the SPED model. This is a social force model…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-01 Mehran Sadeghi Lahijani , Tasvirul Islam , Ashok Srinivasan , Sirish Namilae

This article considers execution and analysis of laboratory experiments of pedestrians moving in a quasi-one-dimensional system with periodic boundary conditions. To analyze characteristics of jams in the system we aim to use the whole…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-02-10 Verena Ziemer , Armin Seyfried , Andreas Schadschneider

We study spatially non-homogeneous kinetic models for vehicular traffic flow. Classical formulations, as for instance the BGK equation, lead to unconditionally unstable solutions in the congested regime of traffic. We address this issue by…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-07-22 Michael Herty , Gabriella Puppo , Sebastiano Roncoroni , Giuseppe Visconti

Nowadays a vast literature is available on the Hele-Shaw or incompressible limit for nonlinear degenerate diffusion equations. This problem has attracted a lot of attention due to its applications to tissue growth and crowd motion modelling…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Noemi David , Alpár R. Mészáros , Filippo Santambrogio

Two aspects of improvements are proposed for the OpenCL-based implementation of the social field pedestrian model. In the aspect of algorithm, a method based on the idea of divide-and-conquer is devised in order to overcome the problem of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Bin Yu , Ke Zhu , Kaiteng Wu , Michael Zhang

A kind of fluid dynamic description for the collective movement of pedestrians is developed on the basis of a Boltzmann-like gaskinetic model. The differences between these pedestrian specific equations and those for ordinary fluids are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dirk Helbing

The paper concerns the study and applications of a new class of optimal control problems governed by a perturbed sweeping process of the hysteresis type with control functions acting in both play-and-stop operator and additive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Tan H. Cao , Boris S. Mordukhovich