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Traffic congestion has long been an ubiquitous problem that is exacerbating with the rapid growth of megacities. In this proof-of-concept work we study intrinsic motivation, implemented via the empowerment principle, to control autonomous…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-20 Himaja Papala , Daniel Polani , Stas Tiomkin

Interaction of two solitons of the different polarities in the framework of modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equation is studied. Three types of soliton interaction are considered: exchange and overtaking for solitons of the same polarity,…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 E. N. Pelinovsky , E. G. Shurgalina

In the Biham-Middleton-Levine traffic model cars are placed with some density p on a two dimensional torus, and move according to a (simple) set of predefined rules. Computer simulations show this system exhibits many interesting phenomena:…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-09-11 Itai Benjamini , Ori Gurel-Gurevich , Roey Izkovsky

Every driver knows that severe weather conditions cause traffic congestions. In many cases there is no direct reason for the congestion, and people tend to attribute it to the slow driving mode. Our computational study shows that the slow…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-12-15 Azi Lipshtat

We revisit the classic problem of determining optimal routes in a graph for transporting two given distributions defined on its nodes, originally studied by Wardrop and Beckmann in the 1950s. The global congestion profile at any given time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Hector Andres Chang-Lara , Sergio David Zapeta-Tzul

In this paper, we propose the ultra-discrete optimal velocity model, a cellular-automaton model for traffic flow, by applying the ultra-discrete method for the optimal velocity model. The optimal velocity model, defined by a differential…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2009-05-23 Masahiro Kanai , Shin Isojima , Katsuhiro Nishinari , Tetsuji Tokihiro

Although routing applications increasingly affect individual mobility choices, their impact on collective traffic dynamics remains largely unknown. Smart communication technologies provide accurate traffic data for choosing one route over…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-11-29 Verena Krall , Max F. Burg , Friedrich Pagenkopf , Henrik Wolf , Marc Timme , Malte Schröder

Spatiotemporal features and physics of vehicular traffic congestion occurring due to heavy freeway bottlenecks caused by bad weather conditions or accidents are found based on simulations in the framework of three-phase traffic theory. A…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-12-12 Boris S. Kerner

We investigate traffic flows using the kinetic Boltzmann equations with a Maxwell collision integral. This approach allows analytical determination of the transient behavior and the size distributions. The relaxation of the car and cluster…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Ben-Naim , P. L. Krapivsky

This paper offers an integrative data-driven physics-inspired approach to model and control traffic congestion in a resilient and efficient manner. While existing physics-based approaches commonly assign density and flow traffic states by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-03 Hossein Rastgoftar , Ella Atkins

This paper studies the behavior of solitons in the Korteweg-de Vries equation under the influence of multiplicative noise. We introduce stochastic processes that track the amplitude and position of solitons based on a rescaled frame…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Rik W. S. Westdorp , Hermen Jan Hupkes

We study a particular deformation of the potential KdV model (pKdV) and construct the quasi-conservation laws by a direct method. The charge densities, differing from their integrable counterpart with homogeneous degree terms, exhibit mixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-01 Harold Blas

Balancing traffic flow by influencing drivers' route choices to alleviate congestion is becoming increasingly more appealing in urban traffic planning. Here, we introduce a discrete dynamical model comprising users who make their own…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-09-09 Bo Li , David Saad , Andrey Y. Lokhov

It is understood that congestion in traffic can be interpreted in terms of the instability of the equation of dynamic motion. The evolution of a traffic system from an unstable or metastable state to a globally stable state bears a strong…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-06 Wei-Liang Qian , Bin Wang , Kai Lin , Romuel F. Machado , Yogiro Hama

The interaction of localised solitary waves with large-scale, time-varying dispersive mean flows subject to nonconvex flux is studied in the framework of the modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equation, a canonical model for nonlinear…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-11-01 Kiera van der Sande , Gennady A. El , Mark A. Hoefer

The capacity of a street segment quantifies the maximal density of vehicles before congestion arises. Here we show in a simple mathematical model that fluctuations in the instantaneous number of vehicles entering a street segment are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-31 Verena Krall , Max F. Burg , Malte Schröder , Marc Timme

Traffic problems have seriously affected people's life quality and urban development, and forecasting the short-term traffic congestion is of great importance to both individuals and governments. However, understanding and modeling the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Meng Chen , Xiaohui Yu , Yang Liu

The sine-Gordon model with space- and time-dependent parameters is considered. A highly accurate effective model with two degrees of freedom is constructed, allowing the description of the kink movement in this model even for extremely long…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-22 Tomasz Dobrowolski , Jacek Gatlik , Zofia Bryłowska , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

Directed motion of topological solitons (kinks or antikinks) in the damped and AC-driven discrete sine-Gordon system is investigated. We show that if the driving field breaks certain time-space symmetries, the soliton can perform…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Yaroslav Zolotaryuk , Mario Salerno

The KdV equation is used as an example to illustrate the relation between the restricted flows and the soliton equation with self-consistent sources. Inspired by the results on the Backlund transformation for the restricted flows (by V.B.…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2008-04-24 Runliang Lin , Haishen Yao , Yunbo Zeng