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Capacity drop is a traffic phenomenon in which the discharge flow from a queue is lower than the theoretical infrastructure capacity. This paper proposes a generic analytical method to estimate the queue discharge flow of freeway traffic.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-05 Yu Han , Pan Liu , Zhiyuan Liu , Ludovic Leclercq

In this paper we present a stable day-to-day dynamical system for drivers' departure time choice at a single bottleneck. We first define within-day traffic dynamics with the point queue model, costs, the departure time user equilibrium…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-30 Wen-Long Jin

We introduce a bottleneck method for learning data representations based on information deficiency, rather than the more traditional information sufficiency. A variational upper bound allows us to implement this method efficiently. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Pradeep Kr. Banerjee , Guido Montúfar

The motion of pedestrians is subject to a wide range of influences and exhibits a rich phenomenology. To enable precise measurement of the density and velocity we use an alternative definition using Voronoi diagrams which exhibits smaller…

A multi-class single-server queueing model with finite buffers, in which scheduling and admission of customers are subject to control, is studied in the moderate deviation heavy traffic regime. A risk-sensitive cost set over a finite time…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-05-02 Rami Atar , Asaf Cohen

In this paper, we study the problem of optimizing the size and mix of a mixed fleet of electric and conventional vehicles owned by firms providing urban freight logistics services. Uncertain customer requests are considered at the strategic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-03 Satya S. Malladi , Jonas M. Christensen , David Ramrez , Allan Larsen , Dario Pacino

We study a class of dynamically consistent risk measures that robustify a time-homogeneous Markovian reference model by allowing for distributional uncertainty in its transition laws. We start from one-step convex risk evaluations in which…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-05-22 Sven Fuhrmann , Michael Kupper , Max Nendel

We present results of numerical simulations of the effect of driver behavior on spatiotemporal congested traffic patterns that result from traffic breakdown at an on-ramp bottleneck. The simulations are made with the Kerner-Klenov…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-01-04 Boris S. Kerner

Service platforms must determine rules for matching heterogeneous demand (customers) and supply (workers) that arrive randomly over time and may be lost if forced to wait too long for a match. Our objective is to maximize the cumulative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Angelos Aveklouris , Levi DeValve , Maximiliano Stock , Amy R. Ward

Through the development of a microscopic deterministic model in the framework of three-phase traffic theory, microscopic features of vehicle overacceleration, which determines the occurrence of the metastability of free traffic flow at a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-22 Boris S. Kerner , Sergey L. Klenov

A Wardrop equilibrium for multiple routes requires equal travel time on each path used. With real-time traffic data regarding travel times, it is important to analyze how to use the information provided. In particular, can a Wardrop…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-09-02 L. C. Davis

Dynamic tolls present an opportunity for municipalities to eliminate congestion and fund infrastructure. Imposing tolls that regulate travel along a public highway through monetary fees raise worries of inequity. In this article, we…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-07-15 John W Helsel , Venktesh Pandey , Stephen D. Boyles

Trajectory planning in automated driving typically focuses on satisfying safety and comfort requirements within the vehicle's onboard sensor range. This paper introduces a method that leverages anticipatory road data, such as speed limits,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Andres Alvarez Prado , Vladislav Nenchev , Christian Rathgeber

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…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-10 Jiaqi Li , Xiaoyuan Xu , Zheng Yan , Han Wang , Yue Chen

Robust and accurate calibration of macroscopic traffic flow models such as METANET is critical for reliable prediction and effective control. While gradient-based methods are desirable for high-dimensional parameter spaces, their…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Shreyaa Raghavan , Cameron Hickert , Monica Chan , Cathy Wu

In the optimal velocity model with a time lag, we show that there appear multiple exact solutions in some ranges of car density, describing a uniform flow, a stable and an unstable congested flows. This establishes the presence of…

patt-sol · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuji Igarashi , Katsumi Itoh , Ken Nakanishi , Kazuhiro Ogura , Ken Yokokawa

Flow-based methods for sampling and generative modeling use continuous-time dynamical systems to represent a {transport map} that pushes forward a source measure to a target measure. The introduction of a time axis provides considerable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-19 Panos Tsimpos , Zhi Ren , Jakob Zech , Youssef Marzouk

Traffic jams in urban scenarios are often caused by bottlenecks related to the street topology and road infrastructure, e.g. traffic lights and merging of lanes. Instead of addressing traffic flow optimization in a static way by extending…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-07-09 Tim Vranken , Benjamin Sliwa , Christian Wietfeld , Michael Schreckenberg

We investigate an optimal stopping problem for the expected value of a discounted payoff on a regime-switching geometric Brownian motion under two constraints on the possible stopping times: only at exogenous random times and only during a…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Takuji Arai , Masahiko Takenaka

Hypotheses and some results of the three-phase traffic theory by the author are compared with results of the fundamental diagram approach to traffic flow theory. A critical discussion of model results about congested pattern features which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Boris S. Kerner