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Understanding the dynamics of traffic clusters is crucial for enhancing urban transportation systems, particularly in managing congestion and free-flow states. This study applies computational percolation theory to analyze the formation and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-30 Yongsung Kwon , Minjin Lee , Mi Jin Lee , Seung-Woo Son

Traffic congestion continues to escalate with urbanization and socioeconomic development, necessitating advanced modeling to understand and mitigate its impacts. In large-scale networks, traffic congestion can be studied using cascade…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-02-20 Agnieszka Janicka , Fiona Sloothaak , Maria Vlasiou , Bert Zwart

Recent empirical studies have reported that spatiotemporal congestion clusters in urban traffic exhibit scale-free statistics, with cluster size following a power-law distribution. In this study, we address whether macroscopic continuum…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-08 Yuki Chiba , Norikazu Saito , Yuki Ueda , Hiroaki Yoshida

Traffic congestion is a major problem in megacities which increases vehicle emissions and degrades ambient air quality. Various models have been developed to address the universal features of traffic jams. These models range from micro…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-11-08 Sasan Ebrahimabadi , Ali Hosseiny , Jingfang Fan , Abbas Ali Saberi

As a dynamical complex system, traffic is characterized by a transition from free flow to congestions, which is mostly studied in highways. However, despite its importance in developing congestion mitigation strategies, the understanding of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-02 Feilong Wang , Daqing Li , Xiaoyun Xu , Ruoqian Wu , Shlomo Havlin

Understanding the mechanisms leading to the formation and the propagation of traffic jams in large cities is of crucial importance for urban planning and traffic management. Many studies have already considered the emergence of traffic jams…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-09-02 Erwan Taillanter , Marc Barthelemy

We study a single-lane traffic model that is based on human driving behavior. The outflow from a traffic jam self-organizes to a critical state of maximum throughput. Small perturbations of the outflow far downstream create emergent traffic…

adap-org · Physics 2009-10-28 Kai Nagel , Maya Paczuski

As a typical self-driven many-particle system far from equilibrium, traffic flow exhibits diverse fascinating non-equilibrium phenomena, most of which are closely related to traffic flow stability and specifically the growth/dissipation…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-18 Rui Jiang , Mao-Bin Hu , H. M. Zhang , Zi-You Gao , Bin Jia , Qing-Song Wu , Bing Wang , Ming Yang

We study a model for freeway traffic which includes strong noise taking into account the fluctuations of individual driving behavior. The model shows emergent traffic jams with a self-similar appearance near the throughput maximum of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 K. Nagel

We investigate the behavior of extended urban traffic networks within the framework of percolation theory by using real and synthetic traffic data. Our main focus shifts from the statistical properties of the cluster size distribution…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-07-21 Marco Cogoni , Giovanni Busonera

The increasing urbanization process we have been witnessing in the last decades is accompanied by a significant increase in traffic congestion in cities around the world. The effect of the congestion is represented in the enormous time…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-11-01 Nimrod Serok , Shlomo Havlin , Efrat Blumenfeld Lieberthal

We study the microscopic time fluctuations of traffic-load and the global statistical properties of a dense traffic of particles on scale-free cyclic graphs. For a wide range of driving rates $R$ the traffic is stationary and the load…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bosiljka Tadic , Stefan Thurner , G. J. Rodgers

By means of a novel variational approach we study ergodic properties of a model of a multi lane traffic flow, considered as a (deterministic) wandering of interacting particles on an infinite lattice. For a class of initial configurations…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Blank

Urban traffic systems are characterized by dynamic interactions between congestion and free-flow states, influenced by human activity and road topology. This study employs percolation theory to analyze traffic dynamics in Seoul, focusing on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-02-25 Yongsung Kwon , Mi Jin Lee , Seung-Woo Son

This is a brief survey of recent experimental studies on out-of-equilibrium scaling laws, focusing on two prominent situations where non-trivial universality classes have been identified theoretically: absorbing-state phase transitions and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-27 Kazumasa A. Takeuchi

The recent availability of data for cities has allowed scientists to exhibit scalings which present themselves in the form of a power-law dependence with population of various socio-economical and structural indicators. We propose here a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-07-18 Rémi Louf , Marc Barthelemy

Recently, motivated by the pioneer works in revealing the small-world effect and scale-free property of various real-life networks, many scientists devote themselves to studying complex networks. In this paper, we give a brief review on the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Bing-Hong Wang , Tao Zhou

Phantom traffic jams may emerge ``out of nowhere'' from small fluctuations rather than being triggered by large, exceptional events. We show how phantom jams arise in a model of single lane highway traffic, which mimics human driving…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 Maya Paczuski , Kai Nagel

The concept of resilience can be realized in natural and engineering systems, representing the ability of system to adapt and recover from various disturbances. Although resilience is a critical property needed for understanding and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-06-19 Limiao Zhang , Guanwen Zeng , Daqing Li , Hai-Jun Huang , H. Eugene Stanley , Shlomo Havlin

Understanding the nature of traffic heterogeneity is of major importance, given the widespread adoption of micromobility in cities. Based on massive field data and a nonequilibrium model, we demonstrate that heterogeneous, multispecies…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Georg Anagnostopoulos , Nikolas Geroliminis
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