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A driving algorithm that aligns with good human driving practices, or at the very least collaborates effectively with human drivers, is crucial for developing safe and efficient autonomous vehicles. In practice, two main approaches are…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Zhihao Zhang , Keith Redmill , Chengyang Peng , Bowen Weng

Car-Following is a broadly studied state of driving, and many modeling approaches through various heuristics and engineering methods have been proposed. Congestion is a common traffic phenomenon also widely investigated, both from…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-25 Huaidian Hou , Arpan Kusari , Brian T. W. Lin

The Intelligent Driver Model (IDM), proposed in 2000, has become a foundational tool in traffic flow modeling, renowned for its simplicity, computational efficiency, and ability to capture diverse traffic dynamics. Over the past 25 years,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-25 Shirui Zhou , Shiteng Zheng , Junfang Tian , Rui Jiang , and H. M. Zhang

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

Macroscopic traffic flow is stochastic, but the physics-informed deep learning methods currently used in transportation literature embed deterministic PDEs and produce point-valued outputs; the stochasticity of the governing dynamics plays…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Wuping Xin

Effects of large value assigned to the maximal car velocity on the fundamental diagrams in the Nagel-Schreckenberg model are studied by extended simulations. The function relating the flow in the congested traffic phase with the car density…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Danuta Makowiec , Wieslaw Miklaszewski

Traffic microsimulation is a crucial tool that uses microscopic traffic models, such as car-following and lane-change models, to simulate the trajectories of individual agents. This digital platform allows for the assessment of the impact…

Applications · Statistics 2024-10-01 Yanbing Wang , Felipe de Souza , Dominik Karbowski

The continual evolution of autonomous driving technology requires car-following models that can adapt to diverse and dynamic traffic environments. Traditional learning-based models often suffer from performance degradation when encountering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Xianda Chen , PakHin Tiu , Xu Han , Junjie Chen , Yuanfei Wu , Xinhu Zheng , Meixin Zhu

In this work, we derive first order continuum traffic flow models from a microscopic delayed follow-the-leader model. Those are applicable in the context of vehicular traffic flow as well as pedestrian traffic flow. The microscopic model is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-14 Antoine Tordeux , Guillaume Costeseque , Michael Herty , Armin Seyfried

A new single lane car following model of traffic flow is presented. The model is inertial and free of collisions. It demonstrates experimentally observed features of traffic flow such as the existence of three regimes: free, fluctuative…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Elad Tomer , Leonid Safonov , Shlomo Havlin

We investigate dynamical properties of traffic flow using the stochastic car-following model with modified optimal velocity on circular road. The safety distance following the two-second rule and autonomous vehicles, acting as agents,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-03-18 Manit Klawtanong , Surachate Limkumnerd

The fundamental diagram is an assumed functional relationship between traffic flow and traffic density. In practice, this relationship is noisy and exhibits significant statistical variability. On smart motorways, this variability is…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Kieran Kalair , Colm Connaughton

Density fluctuations in traffic current are studied by computer simulations using the deterministic coupled map lattice model on a closed single-lane circuit. By calculating a power spectral density of temporal density fluctuations at a…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Yukawa , M. Kikuchi

We study the problem of traffic forecasting, aiming to predict the inflow and outflow of a region in the subsequent time slot. The problem is complex due to the intricate spatial and temporal interdependence among regions. Prior works study…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Zheng Chenghong , Zongyin Deng , Liu Cheng , Xiong Simin , Di Deshi , Li Guanyao

We propose an efficient method for reconstructing traffic density with low penetration rate of probe vehicles. Specifically, we rely on measuring only the initial and final positions of a small number of cars which are generated using…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Nail Baloul , Amaury Hayat , Thibault Liard , Pierre Lissy

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

Day-to-day traffic dynamics are widely used to model flow evolution due to travelers' learning and adjustment behavior, yet empirical analysis of these models often relies on descriptive calibration with limited inferential content. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Minghui Wu , Yafeng Yin , Jerome P. Lynch , Zhichen Liu

We introduce microscopic and macroscopic stochastic traffic models including traffic accidents. The microscopic model is based on a Follow-the-Leader approach whereas the macroscopic model is described by a scalar conservation law with…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-19 Simone Göttlich , Thomas Schillinger

Modeling car-following behavior is fundamental to microscopic traffic simulation, yet traditional deterministic models often fail to capture the full extent of variability and unpredictability in human driving. While many modern approaches…

Applications · Statistics 2026-01-30 Chengyuan Zhang , Zhengbing He , Cathy Wu , Lijun Sun

In this paper we propose a new modeling technique for vehicular traffic flow, designed for capturing at a macroscopic level some effects, due to the microscopic granularity of the flow of cars, which would be lost with a purely continuous…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-03-25 Emiliano Cristiani , Benedetto Piccoli , Andrea Tosin