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Despite the importance of urban traffic flows, there are only a few theoretical approaches to determine fundamental relationships between macroscopic traffic variables such as the traffic density, the utilization, the average velocity, and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Dirk Helbing

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

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 propose a stochastic model for the intersection of two urban streets. The vehicular traffic at the intersection is controlled by a set of traffic lights which can be operated subject to fix-time as well as traffic adaptive schemes.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-03-19 M. Ebrahim Fouladvand , Zeinab Sadjadi , M. Reza Shaebani

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 study a family of deterministic models for highway traffic flow which generalize cellular automaton rule 184. This family is parametrized by the speed limit $m$ and another parameter $k$ that represents a ``degree of aggressiveness'' in…

adap-org · Physics 2009-10-30 Henryk Fuks , Nino Boccara

The Biham, Middleton and Levine (BML) model is extended to describe dynamic route choices between the residence and workplace in cities. The traffic dynamic in the city with a single workplace is studied from the velocity diagram, arrival…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-05 Jun Fang , Jing Shi , Xi-Qun Chen , Zheng Qin

We present a model of traffic flow, with rules that describe the behaviour of automated vehicles in an open system. We show first of all that the fundamental diagram of this system collapses to a point, where states of free and jammed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. E. Larraga , J. A. del Rio , Anita Mehta

This paper presents a mathematical model for the train dynamics in a mass-transit metro line system with one symmetrically operated junction. We distinguish three parts: a central part and two branches. The tracks are spatially discretized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Florian Schanzenbächer , Nadir Farhi , Zoi Christoforou , Fabien Leurent , Gérard Gabriel

This article deals with the modeling for an individual car path through a road network, where the dynamics is driven by a coupled system of ordinary and partial differential equations. The network is characterized by bounded buffers at…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Theresa Dambach , Simone Göttlich , Stephan Knapp

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 macroscopic traffic network flow model suitable for analysis as a dynamical system, and we qualitatively analyze equilibrium flows as well as convergence. Flows at a junction are determined by downstream supply of capacity as…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-05-25 Samuel Coogan , Murat Arcak

We propose a new model of one-dimensional traffic flow using a coupled map lattice. In the model, each vehicle is assigned a map and changes its velocity according to it. A single map is designed so as to represent the motion of a vehicle…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Satoshi Yukawa , Macoto Kikuchi

We consider here probabilistic models of transportation flows. The main goal of this introduction is rather not to present various techniques for problem solving but to present some intuition to invent adequate and natural models having…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-10-24 V. A. Malyshev , A. A. Zamyatin

The cellular automaton model for traffic flow exhibits a jamming transition from a free-flow phase to a congested phase. In the deterministic case this transition corresponds to a critical point with diverging correlation length. We present…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Santen , A. Schadschneider

The dynamical properties of road traffic time series from North-Rhine Westphalian motorways are investigated. The article shows that road traffic dynamics is well described as a persistent stochastic process with two fixed points…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Helge Siegel , Dennis Belomestnyi

We introduce a counting process to model the random occurrence in time of car traffic accidents, taking into account some aspects of the self-excitation typical of this phenomenon. By combining methods from probability and differential…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-19 Simone Göttlich , Thomas Schillinger , Andrea Tosin

We present data from several German freeways showing different kinds of congested traffic forming near road inhomogeneities, specifically lane closings, intersections, or uphill gradients. The states are localized or extended, homogeneous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Martin Treiber , Ansgar Hennecke , Dirk Helbing

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 extend the Aw-Rascle macroscopic model of car traffic into a two-way multi-lane model of pedestrian traffic. Within this model, we propose a technique for the handling of the congestion constraint, i.e. the fact that the pedestrian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-08 Cécile Appert-Rolland , Pierre Degond , Sébastien Motsch