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Based on a Boltzmann-like traffic equation for aggressive drivers we construct in this paper a second-order continuum traffic model which is similar to the Navier-Stokes equations for viscous fluids by applying two well-known methods of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-12-01 W. Marques , A. R. Mendez

The mathematical modeling and the stability analysis of multi-lane traffic in the macroscopic scale is considered. We propose a new first order model derived from microscopic dynamics with lane changing, leading to a coupled system of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-04 Matteo Piu , Michael Herty , Gabriella Puppo

The purpose of this paper is to study the properties of kinetic models for traffic flow described by a Boltzmann-type approach and based on a continuous space of microscopic velocities. In our models, the particular structure of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-30 Gabriella Puppo , Matteo Semplice , Andrea Tosin , Giuseppe Visconti

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

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 propose and study a one-dimensional traffic flow cellular automaton model of high-speed vehicles with the Fukui-Ishibashi-type (FI) acceleration rule for all cars, and the Nagel-Schreckenberg-type (NS) stochastic delay mechanism. By…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chuan-Ji Fu , Chuan-Yang Yin , Tao Zhou , Bo Hu , Bing-Hong Wang , Kun Gao

In this paper, we study the problem of traffic management in highways facing stochastic perturbations. To model the macroscopic traffic flow under perturbations, we use cell-transmission model with Markovian capacities. The decision…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Li Jin , Alexander A. Kurzhanskiy , Saurabh Amin

We propose a cellular automata model for vehicular traffic in cities by combining (and appropriately modifying) ideas borrowed from the Biham-Middleton-Levine (BML) model of city traffic and the Nagel-Schreckenberg (NS) model of highway…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Debashish Chowdhury , Andreas Schadschneider

The Krauss-model is a stochastic model for traffic flow which is continuous in space. For periodic boundary conditions it is well understood and known to display a non-unique flow-density relation (fundamental diagram) for certain…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alireza Namazi , Nils Eissfeldt , Peter Wagner , Andreas Schadschneider

We introduce a cellular automaton model coupled with a transport equation for flows on graphs. The direction of the flow is described by a switching process where the switching probability dynamically changes according to the value of the…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2013-07-02 Pierre Degond , Michael Herty , Jian-Guo Liu

We investigate a cellular automaton (CA) model of traffic on a bi-directional two-lane road. Our model is an extension of the one-lane CA model of {Nagel and Schreckenberg 1992}, modified to account for interactions mediated by passing, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Patrice Simon , Howard A Gutowitz

We present simulations of congested traffic in circular and open systems with a non-local, gas-kinetic-based traffic model and a novel car-following model. The model parameters are all intuitive and can be easily calibrated. Micro- and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dirk Helbing , Ansgar Hennecke , Vladimir Shvetsov , Martin Treiber

In this work we propose a two-dimensional extension of a previously defined one-dimensional version of a model of counterflowing particles, which considers an adapted Fermi-Dirac distribution to describe the transition probabilities. In…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-09-02 E. V. Stock , R. da Silva

Experiments with pedestrians could depend strongly on initial conditions. Comparisons of the results of such experiments require to distinguish carefully between transient state and steady state. In this work, a feasible algorithm -…

This paper proposes an improved cellular automaton traffic flow model based on the brake light model, which takes into account that the desired time gap of vehicles is remarkably larger than one second. Although the hypothetical steady…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2015-03-23 Junfang Tian , Bin Jia , Shoufeng Ma , Chenqiang Zhu , Rui Jiang , YaoXian Ding

A new lattice Boltzmann method for simulating multiphase flows is developed theoretically. The method is adjusted such that its continuum limit is the Navier-Stokes equation, with a driving force derived from the Cahn-Hilliard free energy.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-25 Jasna Zelko , Burkhard Duenweg

In this paper, we introduce a traffic flow model based on a microscopic follow-the-leader model, while enforcing maximal constraints on the density and velocity of the flow. The related macroscopic model can be represented in conservative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Yuanhong Wu , Shuzhi Liu , Qinglong Zhang

Phase-transition models are an important family of non-equilibrium continuum traffic flow models, offering properties like replicating complex traffic phenomena, maintaining anisotropy, and promising potentials for accommodating automated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Shaoshuai Chu , Alexander Kurganov , Saeed Mohammadian , Zuduo Zheng

In the present paper a review and numerical comparison of a special class of multi-phase traffic theories based on microscopic, kinetic and macroscopic traffic models is given. Macroscopic traffic equations with multi-valued fundamental…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Raul Borsche , Mark Kimathi , Axel Klar

In this paper, we investigate the non-signalized intersection issue considering traffic flow and energy dissipation in terms of game theory based on the Nagel-Schreckenberg (NaSch) model. There are two types of driver agents at the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-06-08 Wei Zhang , Wei Zhang