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We consider a largely untapped potential for the improvement of traffic networks that is rooted in the inherent uncertainty of travel times. Travel times are subject to stochastic uncertainty resulting from various parameters such as…

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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

This contribution summarizes and explains various principles from physics which are used for the simulation of traffic flows in large street networks, the modeling of destination, transport mode, and route choice, or the simulation of urban…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-17 Dirk Helbing , Kai Nagel

A unifying graph theoretic framework for the modelling of metro transportation networks is proposed. This is achieved by first introducing a basic graph framework for the modelling of the London underground system from a diffusion law point…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Bruno Scalzo Dees , Yao Lei Xu , Anthony G. Constantinides , Danilo P. Mandic

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

Adaptive management of traffic congestion in the Internet is a complex problem that can gain useful insights from a dynamical approach. In this paper we propose and analyze a one-dimensional, discrete-time nonlinear model for Internet…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-22 José M. Amigó , Guillem Duran , Angel Giménez , Oscar Martínez-Bonastre , José Valero

Effective congestion management along signalized corridors is essential for improving productivity and reducing costs, with arterial travel time serving as a key performance metric. Traditional approaches, such as Coordinated Signal Timing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Nooshin Yousefzadeh , Rahul Sengupta , Sanjay Ranka

Electric Vehicles (EV) impact urban networks both when driving (e.g., noise and pollution reduction) and charging. For the electrical grid, the flexibility of EV charging makes it a significant actor in "Demand Response" mechanisms.…

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A model for 1D traffic flow is developed, which is discrete in space and time. Like the cellular automaton model by Nagel and Schreckenberg [J. Phys. I France 2, 2221 (1992)], it is simple, fast, and can describe stop-and-go traffic. Due to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dirk Helbing , Michael Schreckenberg

User equilibrium is a central concept for studying transportation networks, and one can view it as the result of a dynamical process of drivers' route choice behavior. In this paper, based on a definition of O-D First-In-First-Out…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-11-20 Wen-Long Jin

In this short paper we describe natural logit population games dynamics that explain equilibrium models of origin-destination matrix estimation and (stochastic) traffic assignment models (Beckmann, Nesterov--de Palma). Composition of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-27 Evgenia Gasnikova , Alexander Gasnikov , Yaroslav Kholodov , Anastasiya Zukhba

In this work, we face the issue of achieving an efficient dynamic mapping in vehicular networking scenarios, i.e., to obtain an accurate estimate of the positions and trajectories of connected vehicles in a certain area. State of the art…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Federico Mason , Marco Giordani , Federico Chiariotti , Andrea Zanella , Michele Zorzi

Starting from the instability diagram of a traffic flow model, we derive conditions for the occurrence of congested traffic states, their appearance, their spreading in space and time, and the related increase in travel times. We discuss…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-10-26 Dirk Helbing , Martin Treiber , Arne Kesting , Martin Schönhof

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

One abstract method for the study of network transportation is proposed in this paper. By interpolating the properties of the edges that constitute network into the two leading parameters of the nodes, this method can abstract the…

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Autonomous agents rely on sensor data to construct representations of their environments, essential for predicting future events and planning their actions. However, sensor measurements suffer from limited range, occlusions, and sensor…

Dynamical formulations of optimal transport (OT) frame the task of comparing distributions as a variational problem which searches for a path between distributions minimizing a kinetic energy functional. In applications, it is frequently…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Martin Bauer , Nicolas Charon , Tom Needham , Mao Nishino

We consider a basic model of a dynamical distribution network, modeled as a directed graph with storage variables corresponding to every vertex and flow inputs corresponding to every edge, subject to unknown but constant inflows and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-21 Jieqiang Wei , Arjan J. van der Schaft

This paper will contribute to a practical problem, Urban Traffic. We will investigate those features, try to simplify the complexity and formulize this dynamic system. These contents mainly contain how to analyze a decision problem with…

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The increasing global spread of electric vehicles (EVs) has introduced significant interdependence between transportation and power networks. Most of the previous studies on coupled networks focus on the formation of equilibrium states…

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