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Modeling heterogeneous and multi-lane traffic flow is essential for understanding and controlling complex transportation systems. In this work, we consider three vehicle populations: two classes of human-driven vehicles (cars and trucks)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Maria Teresa Chiri , Christopher Denaro , Xiaoqian Gong , Benedetto Piccoli

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

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

The integration of autonomous vehicles (AVs) into the existing transportation infrastructure offers a promising solution to alleviate congestion and enhance mobility. This research explores a novel approach to traffic optimization by…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Lu Liu , Maonan Wang , Man-On Pun , Xi Xiong

This study addresses multilane vehicular traffic modelling, focusing on the transition between microscopic (individual vehicle-based) to macroscopic (aggregate flow-based) descriptions. While previous research on multilane traffic has…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-09 Matteo Piu , Giuseppe Visconti , Gabriella Puppo

We extend the Aw-Rascle macroscopic model of car traffic into a two-way multi-lane model of pedestrian traffic. Within this model, we propose a technique for the handling of the congestion constraint, i.e. the fact that the pedestrian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-08 Cécile Appert-Rolland , Pierre Degond , Sébastien Motsch

To investigate the impact of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) on urban congestion, this study looks at their performance at road intersections. Intersection performance has been studied across a range of traffic densities using a simple MATLAB…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-12 Karam Safarov , Thomas Kent , Eddie Wilson , Arthur Richards

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

Weaving ramps are critical bottlenecks in highway networks due to conflicting traffic flows and complex interactions among heterogeneous vehicle types. In mixed-autonomy settings, the presence of controllable autonomous vehicles (AVs)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Kexin Wang , Haohui He , Ruolin Li

We prove the well-posedness of a system of balance laws inspired by [8], describing macro-scopically the traffic flow on a multi-lane road network. Motivated by real applications, we allow for the the presence of space discontinuities both…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-10 Paola Goatin , Elena Rossi

Vehicles in developing countries have widely varying dimensions and speeds, and drivers tend to not follow lane discipline. In this flow state called "mixed traffic", the interactions between drivers and the resulting maneuvers resemble…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-08-01 Venkatesan Kanagaraj , Martin Treiber

We study the ability of autonomous vehicles to improve the throughput of a bottleneck using a fully decentralized control scheme in a mixed autonomy setting. We consider the problem of improving the throughput of a scaled model of the San…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Eugene Vinitsky , Nathan Lichtle , Kanaad Parvate , Alexandre Bayen

We address the problem of optimally controlling Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) arriving from four multi-lane roads at an intersection where they conflict in terms of safely crossing (including turns) with no collision. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-07 Huile Xu , Wei Xiao , Christos G. Cassandras , Yi Zhang , Li Li

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

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

In this paper, we consider the two phases macroscopic traffic model introduced in [P. Goatin, The Aw-Rascle vehicular traffic flow with phase transitions, Mathematical and Computer Modeling 44 (2006) 287-303]. We first apply the wave-front…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-11 Mohamed Benyahia , Massimiliano Daniele Rosini

Control problems of mixed-autonomy traffic systems that consist of both human-driven vehicles (HV) and autonomous vehicles (AV), have gained increasing attention. This paper focuses on suppressing traffic oscillations in the mixed-autonomy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Yihuai Zhang , Huan Yu

In this paper, we study the optimal control of a mixed-autonomy platoon driving on a single lane to smooth traffic flow. The platoon consists of autonomous vehicles, whose acceleration is controlled, and human-driven vehicles, whose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Arwa Alanqary , Alexandre M. Bayen , Xiaoqian Gong , Anish Gollakota , Alexander Keimer , Ashish Pandian

This paper develops boundary control for freeway traffic with a downstream bottleneck. Traffic on a freeway segment with capacity drop at outlet of the segment is a common phenomenon leading to traffic bottleneck problem. The capacity drop…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-10 Huan Yu , Shumon Koga , Tiago Roux Oliveira , Miroslav Krstic

High-density, unsignalized intersection has always been a bottleneck of efficiency and safety. The emergence of Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) results in a mixed traffic condition, further increasing the complexity of the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Shiyu Fang , Peng Hang , Chongfeng Wei , Yang Xing , Jian Sun