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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

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

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

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

We propose and study a model of traffic in communication networks. The underlying network has a structure that is tunable between a scale-free growing network with preferential attachments and a random growing network. To model realistic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-06-12 Zonghua Liua , Weichuan Ma , Huan Zhang , Yin Sun , P. M. Hui

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

Traffic congestion, a daily frustration for millions and a multi-billion dollar drain on economies, has long resisted deep physical understanding. While simple theoretical models of traffic flow have suggested connections to critical…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-15 Garyoung Lee , Aryaman Jha , Kurt Wiesenfeld , Jorge Laval

The urban networks of London and New York City are investigated as directed graphs within the paradigm of graph percolation. It has been recently observed that urban networks show a critical percolation transition when a fraction of edges…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-10-20 Marco Cogoni , Giovanni Busonera

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

We propose and analyse a new microscopic second order Follow-the-Leader type scheme to describe traffic flows. The main novelty of this model consists in multiplying the second order term by a nonlinear function of the global density, with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Dario Mazzoleni , Emanuela Radici , Filippo Riva

This paper addresses the problem of a boundary control design for traffic evolving in a large-scale urban network. The traffic state is described on a macroscopic scale and corresponds to the vehicle density, whose dynamics are governed by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Liudmila Tumash , Carlos Canudas-de-Wit , Maria Laura Delle Monache

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

We study the tolerance to congestion failures in communication networks with scale-free topology. The traffic load carried by each damaged element in the network must be partly or totally redistributed among the remaining elements.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. Moreno , R. Pastor-Satorras , A. Vazquez , A. Vespignani

We study a minimal model of traffic flows in complex networks, simple enough to get analytical results, but with a very rich phenomenology, presenting continuous, discontinuous as well as hybrid phase transitions between a free-flow phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Daniele De Martino , Luca Dall'Asta , Ginestra Bianconi , Matteo Marsili

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

Understanding how local traffic congestion spreads in urban traffic networks is fundamental to solving congestion problems in cities. In this work, by analyzing the high resolution data of traffic velocity in Seoul, we empirically…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-01-17 Jung-Hoon Jung , Young-Ho Eom

This letter propose a new model for characterizing traffic dynamics in scale-free networks. With a replotted road map of cities with roads mapped to vertices and intersections to edges, and introducing the road capacity L and its handling…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Mao-Bin Hu , Wen-Xu Wang , Rui Jiang , Qing-Song Wu , Bing-Hong Wang , Yong-Hong Wu

Traffic congestion is one of the most notable problems arising in worldwide urban areas, importantly compromising human mobility and air quality. Current technologies to sense real-time data about cities, and its open distribution for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-30 Albert Solé-Ribalta , Sergio Gómez , Alex Arenas

We described the average traffic congestion in several populous cities around the world from a new concept, namely landscape percolation. The ratio of the residential area size to road width is a fundamental parameter that controls the…

A multi--cluster model of traffic flow is studied, in which the motion of cars is described by a stochastic master equation. Assuming that the escape rate from a cluster depends only on the cluster size, the dynamics of the model is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Kaupuzs , R. Mahnke , R. J. Harris
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