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We propose a framework for constructing microscopic traffic models from microscopic acceleration patterns that can in principle be experimental measured and proper averaged. The exact model thus obtained can be used to justify the…

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It is shown that a variety of deterministic cellular automaton models of highway traffic flow obey a variational principle which states that, for a given car density, the average car flow is a non-decreasing function of time. This result is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-12-21 Nino Boccara

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

This paper has incorporated the stochasticity into the Newell car following model. Three stochastic driving factors have been considered: (i) Driver's acceleration is bounded. (ii) Driver's deceleration includes stochastic component, which…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-11-02 Junfang Tian , Rui Jiang , Bin Jia , Shoufeng Ma , Ziyou Gao

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

We analyze the patterns of traffic jams in urban networks of five large cities and an urban agglomeration region in China using real data based on a recently developed jam tree model. This model focuses on the way traffic jams spread…

The theory of a jamming transition is proposed for the homogeneous car-following model within the framework of Lorenz scheme. We represent a jamming transition as a result of the spontaneous deviations of headway and velocity that is caused…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. I. Olemskoi , A. V. Khomenko

The basic properties of traffic flow are analyzed using a simple deterministic one dimensional "car following model" with continuous variables based on a model introduced by Nagel and Herrmann [Physica A 199 254--269 (1993)] including a few…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Sauermann , H. J. Herrmann

Motivated by an analogy with traffic, we simulate two species of particles (`vehicles'), moving stochastically in opposite directions on a two-lane ring road. Each species prefers one lane over the other, controlled by a parameter $0 \leq b…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Schmittmann , J. Krometis , R. K. P. Zia

Traffic congestion represents a complex urban phenomenon that has been the subject of extensive research employing various modeling techniques grounded in the principles of physics and molecular theory. Although factors such as road design,…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-10-07 Shawn Berry

We propose a simple microscopic model for arching phenomena at bottlenecks. The dynamics of particles in front of a bottleneck is described by a one-dimensional stochastic cellular automaton on a semicircular geometry. The model reproduces…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Takumi Masuda , Katsuhiro Nishinari , Andreas Schadschneider

In [7], Berthelin, Degond, Delitala and Rascle introduced a traffic flow model describing the formation and the dynamics of traffic jams. This model consists of a Pressureless Gas Dynamics system under a maximal constraint on the density…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-08-08 Florent Berthelin , Damien Broizat

Driving styles have a great influence on vehicle fuel economy, active safety, and drivability. To recognize driving styles of path-tracking behaviors for different divers, a statistical pattern-recognition method is developed to deal with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-12 Wenshuo Wang , Junqiang Xi , Xiaohan Li

Initially a car is placed with probability p at each site of the two-dimensional integer lattice. Each car is equally likely to be East-facing or North-facing, and different sites receive independent assignments. At odd time steps, each…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Omer Angel , Alexander E Holroyd , James B Martin

Traffic on a circular road is described by dynamic programming equations associated to optimal control problems. By solving the equations analytically, we derive the relation between the average car density and the average car flow, known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-02-11 Nadir Farhi

A system of identical cars on a single-lane road is treated as a microcanonical and canonical ensemble. Behaviour of the cars is characterized by the probability of car velocity as a function of distance and velocity of the car ahead. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Anton Šurda

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

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

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 appearance of traffic jams on chains with a shunted section between two simple chain segments in the maximum current phase is studied in the framework of the Totally Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process. The conditions for the occurrence…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-30 N. Zh. Bunzarova , N. C. Pesheva , J. G. Brankov