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We introduce a simple lattice model of traffic flow in a city where drivers optimize their route-selection in time in order to avoid traffic jams, and study its phase structure as a function of the density of vehicles and of the drivers'…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. De Martino , M. Marsili , R. Mulet

We consider a mechanical system of three ants on the floor, which move according to two independt rules: Rule A - forces the velocity of any given ant to always point at a neighboring ant, and Rule B - forces the velocity of every ant to be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Andrei Agrachev , Pawel Nurowski

Bio-inspired design is often used in autonomous UAV navigation due to the capacity of biological systems for flight and obstacle avoidance despite limited sensory and computational capabilities. In particular, honeybees mainly use the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Pranav Rajbhandari , Abhi Veda , Matthew Garratt , Mandyam Srinivasan , Sridhar Ravi

A modified version of Langton's ant is considered. The modified automaton is allowed to go straight $N$-th step instead of turning. The cell state, however, is changed as usually. Depending on the value of $N$ the automaton exhibits…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2018-07-25 Paweł Tokarz

Most traffic flow control algorithms address switching cycle adaptation of traffic signals and lights. This work addresses traffic flow optimisation by self-organising micro-level control combining Reinforcement Learning and rule-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Stefan Bosse

Mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a collection of wireless mobile nodes. It dynamically forms a temporary network without using any pre existing network infrastructure or centralized administration i.e. with minimal prior planning. All nodes…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-05-09 Mohammad Arif , Tara Rani

The unreal high flows may appear on the actually congested links in the result when a monotonically increasing link travel time function of flow volume is adopted in traffic assignment. The fixed link flow results of a static traffic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Shengxue He

In this second part of our research we used the models presented in \emph{Modeling a vehicular traffic network. Part I} \cite{ogm1} to perform an analysis of the urban traffic as recorded by cameras distributed in a chosen sector of Tigre,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-08-01 Ariel Amadio , Facundo Nicuesa , D. Otero , D. Galetti , S. S. Mizrahi

Data centers traffic is composed by numerous latency-sensitive "mice" flows, which is consisted of only several packets, and a few throughput-sensitive "elephant" flows, which occupy more than 80% of overall load. Generally, the short-lived…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Wenxue Cheng , Fengyuan Ren , Wanchun Jiang , Kun Qian , Tong Zhang , Ran Shu

The Santa Fe Ant model problem has been extensively used to investigate, test and evaluate Evolutionary Computing systems and methods over the past two decades. There is however no literature on its program structures that are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-02-10 Dominic Wilson , Devinder Kaur

Using a simple model for the trail formation of ants, the relation between i)the schedule of feeding which represents the unsteady natural environment, ii)emerging patterns of trails connecting a nest with food resources, and iii)the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-10 Tomomi Tao , Hiroyuki Nakagawa , Masato Yamasaki , Hiraku Nishimori

This study examines the potential impact of reinforcement learning (RL)-enabled autonomous vehicles (AV) on urban traffic flow in a mixed traffic environment. We focus on a simplified day-to-day route choice problem in a multi-agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Ahmet Onur Akman , Anastasia Psarou , Zoltán György Varga , Grzegorz Jamróz , Rafał Kucharski

Braess's paradox -- where adding network capacity increases travel time -- is typically attributed to selfish agents. Although eusocial colonies maximize collective fitness, we find experimentally that \emph{Diacamma indicum} ants exhibit…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Joy Das Bairagya , Udipta Chakraborti , Sumana Annagiri , Sagar Chakraborty

Social organisms which construct nests consisting of tunnels and chambers necessarily navigate confined and crowded conditions. Unlike low-density collectives like bird flocks and insect swarms, in which hydrodynamic and statistical…

Nutritional regulation by ants emerges from a distributed process: food is collected by a small fraction of workers, stored within the crops of individuals, and spreads via local ant-to-ant interactions. The precise individual level…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-07-26 Efrat Greenwald , Lior Baltiansky , Ofer Feinerman

We show that transport in the presence of entropic barriers exhibits peculiar characteristics which makes it distinctly different from that occurring through energy barriers. The constrained dynamics yields a scaling regime for the particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Reguera , G. Schmid , P. S. Burada , J. M. Rubí , P. Hänggi

We propose an Individual-Based Model of ant-trail formation. The ants are modeled as self-propelled particles which deposit directed pheromones and interact with them through alignment interaction. The directed pheromones intend to model…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2014-04-08 Emmanuel Boissard , Pierre Degond , Sébastien Motsch

Routing strategies for traffics and vehicles have been historically studied. However, in the absence of considering drivers' preferences, current route planning algorithms are developed under ideal situations where all drivers are expected…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Jizhe Zhou , Qiwei Chen , Qin Li

Many species of ants forage by building up two files: an outbound one moving from the nest to the foraging area, and a nestbound one, returning from it to the nest. Those files are eventually submitted to different threats. If the danger is…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-12-15 F. Tejera , E. Altshuler

Animal movement exhibits complex behavior which can be influenced by unobserved environmental conditions. We propose a model which allows for a spatially-varying movement rate and spatially-varying drift through a semiparametric potential…

Applications · Statistics 2017-02-28 James C. Russell , Ephraim M. Hanks , Murali Haran , David P. Hughes