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This paper presents a mixed traffic control policy designed to optimize traffic efficiency across diverse road topologies, addressing issues of congestion prevalent in urban environments. A model-free reinforcement learning (RL) approach is…

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We propose a microscopic traffic model where the update velocity is determined by the deceleration capacity and response time. It is found that there is a class of collisions that cannot be distinguished by simply comparing the stop…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-15 Hyun Keun Lee , Jeenu Kim , Youngho Kim , Choong-Ki Lee

The initial boundary value problem for a class of scalar non autonomous conservation laws in one space dimension is proved to be well posed and stable with respect to variations in the flux. Targeting applications to traffic, the regularity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Rinaldo M. Colombo , Elena Rossi

Automated Vehicle (AV) control in mixed traffic, where AVs coexist with human-driven vehicles, poses significant challenges in balancing safety, efficiency, comfort, fuel efficiency, and compliance with traffic rules while capturing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Pankaj Kumar , Pranamesh Chakraborty , Subrahmanya Swamy Peruru

Delay-coupled networks are investigated with nonidentical delay times and the effects of such heterogeneity on the emergent dynamics of complex systems are characterized. A simple decomposition method is presented that decouples the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-04-25 Róbert Szalai , Gábor Orosz

The emergence of autonomous vehicles is expected to revolutionize road transportation in the near future. Although large-scale numerical simulations and small-scale experiments have shown promising results, a comprehensive theoretical…

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We study a 1D scalar conservation law whose non-local flux has a single spatial discontinuity. This model is intended to describe traffic flow on a road with rough conditions. We approximate the problem through an upwind-type numerical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-30 Felisia Angela Chiarello , Harold Deivi Contreras , Luis Miguel Villada

The present paper proposes a novel interpretation of the widely scattered states (called synchronized traffic) stimulated by Kerner's hypotheses about the existence of a multitude of metastable states in the fundamental diagram. Using…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Ihor Lubashevsky , Reinhard Mahnke , Peter Wagner , Sergey Kalenkov

We consider a conservation law model of traffic flow, where the velocity of each car depends on a weighted average of the traffic density $\rho$ ahead. The averaging kernel is of exponential type: $w_\varepsilon(s)=\varepsilon ^{-1}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-20 Alberto Bressan , Wen Shen

We present a non-local version of a scalar balance law modeling traffic flow with on-ramps and off-ramps. The source term is used to describe the traffic flow over the on-ramp and off-ramps. We approximate the problem using an upwind-type…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-10 F. A. Chiarello , H. D. Contreras , L. M. Villada

A major challenge for autonomous vehicles is handling interactive scenarios, such as highway merging, with human-driven vehicles. A better understanding of human interactive behaviour could help address this challenge. Such understanding…

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The mathematical modeling and the stability analysis of multi-lane traffic in the macroscopic scale is considered. We propose a new first order model derived from microscopic dynamics with lane changing, leading to a coupled system of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-04 Matteo Piu , Michael Herty , Gabriella Puppo

Statistical mechanics of a disordered system of cars on a single-lane road is developed. Behaviour of cars is defined by conditional probability of car velocity depending on the distance and velocity of the car ahead. A system consisting of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-08-13 Anton Šurda

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) allow new ways of regulating the traffic flow on road networks. Most of available results in this direction are based on microscopic approaches, where ODEs describe the evolution of regular cars and AVs. In this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Mauro Garavello , Paola Goatin , Thibault Liard , Benedetto Piccoli

Recent advancements in vehicle autonomy have drawn interest in understanding the impact of autonomous vehicles on traffic systems. In this paper, we study a traffic assignment problem in a mixed-autonomy setting where both human-driven and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Lihui Yi , Ermin Wei

Autonomous driving systems present promising methods for congestion mitigation in mixed autonomy traffic control settings. In particular, when coupled with even modest traffic state estimates, such systems can plan and coordinate the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 Zhe Fu , Abdul Rahman Kreidieh , Han Wang , Jonathan W. Lee , Maria Laura Delle Monache , Alexandre M. Bayen

Aiming at the problem of driver's perception lag and low utilization efficiency of space-time resources in expressway ramp confluence area, based on the preemptive spatiotemporal trajectory Adjustment system, from the perspective of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Yuan Li , Xiaoxue Xu , Xiang Dong , Junfeng Hao , Tao Li , Sana Ullaha , Chuangrui Huang , Junjie Niu , Ziyan Zhao , Ting Peng

Hybrid traffic laws represent an innovative approach to managing mixed environments of connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) and human-driven vehicles (HDVs) by introducing separate sets of regulations for each vehicle type. These laws are…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Tal Kraicer , Jack Haddad , Erez Karaps , Moshe Tennenholtz

We investigate dynamical properties of traffic flow using the stochastic car-following model with modified optimal velocity on circular road. The safety distance following the two-second rule and autonomous vehicles, acting as agents,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-03-18 Manit Klawtanong , Surachate Limkumnerd