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We propose a traffic flow model in which the vehicles are filed from their maximal velocities, the fast cars run with $Vmax{1}$, whereas the slow ones run with $Vmax{2}$. Using new overtaking rules which deals with deterministic NaSch…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Ez-Zahraouy K. Jetto A. Benyoussef

Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) are expected to reshape traffic flow dynamics and present new challenges and opportunities for traffic flow modeling. While numerous studies have proposed optimal modeling and control strategies for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Saeed Mohammadian , Zuduo Zheng , Md. Mazharul Haque , Ashish Bhaskar

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

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

We consider a one-dimensional stochastic reaction-diffusion generalizing the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process, and aiming at describing single lane roads with vehicles that can change speed. To each particle is associated a jump…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-09-09 Cyril Furtlehner , Jean-Marc Lasgouttes

The relation between flow and density is an essential quantitative characteristic to describe the efficiency of traffic systems. We have performed experiments with single-file motion of bicycles and compare the results with previous studies…

The fundamental diagram (FD), also known as the flow--density relation, is one of the most fundamental concepts in the traffic flow theory. It describes the relation between equilibrated flow, density, and speed in traffic flow.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-12 Toru Seo , Yutaka Kawasaki , Takahiko Kusakabe , Yasuo Asakura

Mitigating traffic congestion on urban roads, with paramount importance in urban development and reduction of energy consumption and air pollution, depends on our ability to foresee road usage and traffic conditions pertaining to the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-27 Jingyuan Wang , Yu Mao , Jing Li , Chao Li , Zhang Xiong , Wen-Xu Wang

Optimal transport (OT) theory provides a principled framework for modeling mass movement in applications such as mobility, logistics, and economics. Classical formulations, however, generally ignore capacity limits that are intrinsic in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Anqi Dong , Karl Henrik Johansson , Johan Karlsson

We introduce two simple two-dimensional lattice models to study traffic flow in cities. We have found that a few basic elements give rise to the characteristic phase diagram of a first-order phase transition from a freely moving phase to a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-08-14 José A. Cuesta , Froilán C. Martínez , Juan M. Molera , Angel Sánchez Escuela

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

We introduce two simple two-dimensional lattice models to study traffic flow in cities. We have found that a few basic elements give rise to the characteristic phase diagram of a first-order phase transition from a freely moving phase to a…

By means of microscopic simulations we show that non-instantaneous adaptation of the driving behaviour to the traffic situation together with the conventional measurement method of flow-density data can explain the observed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Martin Treiber , Dirk Helbing

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

This paper considers an unsignalized intersection used by two traffic streams. A stream of cars is using a primary road, and has priority over the other stream. Cars belonging to the latter stream cross the primary road if the gaps between…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Abhishek , Marko Boon , Michel Mandjes , Rudesindo Núñez-Queija

We investigate the speed time series of the vehicles recorded by a camera at a section of a highway in the city of Isfahan, Iran. Using $k$-means clustering algorithm, we find that the natural number of clustering for this set of data is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-10-24 Reihaneh Kouhi , Farhad Shahbazi , Meisam Akbarzadeh

We introduce a simple lattice model of traffic flow in a city where drivers optimize their route-selection in time in order to avoid traffic jams, and study its phase structure as a function of the density of vehicles and of the drivers'…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. De Martino , M. Marsili , R. Mulet

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

Fundamental diagrams describe the relationship between speed, flow, and density for some roadway (or set of roadway) configuration(s). These diagrams typically do not reflect, however, information on how speed-flow relationships change as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 James Koch , Thomas Maxner , Vinay Amatya , Andisheh Ranjbari , Chase Dowling

This paper firstly show that a recent model (Tian et al., Transpn. Res. B 71, 138-157, 2015) is not able to well replicate the evolution concavity in traffic flow, i.e. the standard deviation of vehicles increases in a concave/linear way…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2015-07-16 Junfang Tian , Rui Jiang , Guangyu Li , Martin Treiber , Ning Jia , Shoufeng Ma