Traffic and Granular Flow ’03

Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Lane-Change Maneuvers Consuming Freeway Capacity....Pages 3-14
Empirical Description of Car-Following....Pages 15-27
Optimization Potential of a Highway Network: An Empirical Study....Pages 29-44
Observation, Theory and Experiment for Freeway Traffic as Physics of Many-Body System....Pages 45-58
Fluctuation in Expressway Traffic Flow....Pages 59-65
Calibration and Validation of Microscopic Traffic Flow Models....Pages 67-72
Real Highway Traffic Simulations Based on a Cellular Automata Model....Pages 73-78
Traffic Data Collection and Study with the BirdEye System....Pages 79-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Probabilistic Traffic Flow Breakdown in Stochastic Car Following Models....Pages 87-103
A Wave-Based Resolution Scheme for the Hydrodynamic LWR Traffic Flow Model....Pages 105-124
Various Scales for Traffic Flow Representation: Some Reflections....Pages 125-139
Comparison of Congested Pattern Features at Different Freeway Bottlenecks....Pages 141-160
Congestion Due to Merging Roads: Predictions of Three-Phase Traffic Theory....Pages 161-172
Production, Supply, and Traffic Systems: A Unified Description....Pages 173-188
Capacity Funnel Explained Using the Human-Kinetic Traffic Flow Model....Pages 189-197
A Comparison of a Cellular Automaton and a Macroscopic Model....Pages 199-204
Stochastic Description of Traffic Breakdown: Langevin Approach....Pages 205-210
Towards Noised-Induced Phase Transitions in Systems of Elements with Motivated Behavior....Pages 211-216
Using the Road Traffic Simulation “SUMO” for Educational Purposes....Pages 217-222
Approximating Traffic Flow by a Schrödinger Equation - Introduction of Non-Reflecting Boundary Conditions....Pages 223-228
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Modeling and Managing Traffic Flow Through Hyperbolic Conservation Laws....Pages 229-234
Conservation Versus Balance Laws in Traffic Flow....Pages 235-240
Introducing the Effects of Slow Vehicles in a LWR Two-Flow Traffic Model....Pages 241-246
Bifurcation Analysis of Meta-Stability and Waves of the OV Model....Pages 247-252
Pinch Effect in a Cellular Automaton (CA) Model for Traffic Flow....Pages 253-258
Front Matter....Pages 259-259
Intersection Modeling, Application to Macroscopic Network Traffic Flow Models and Traffic Management....Pages 261-278
Granular Transport Policy Is Cooperation Better than Optimization?....Pages 279-294
Real-Time Motorway Network Traffic Surveillance Tool RENAISSANCE....Pages 295-304
Minority Game - Experiments and Simulations....Pages 305-315
Experimental Investigation of a Two Route Scenario with Construction Areas....Pages 317-324
Phase Diagrams of an Internet Model with Multi-Allocation of Sites....Pages 325-330
Adaptive Traffic Light Control in the ChSch Model for City Traffic....Pages 331-336
Vehicle Flow and Phase Transitions in Traffic Networks....Pages 337-339
Front Matter....Pages 341-341
Anomalous Fundamental Diagrams in Traffic on Ant Trails....Pages 343-356
Models for Crowd Movement and Egress Simulation....Pages 357-372
Self-Organization in Pedestrian Flow....Pages 373-382
A Comparison of Video and Infrared Based Tracking of Pedestrian Movements....Pages 383-391
Statistical Analysis of the Panic in the Pedestrian Flow....Pages 393-398
Group Formation of Organisms in 2-Dimensional OV Model....Pages 399-404
Simulations of Evacuation by an Extended Floor Field CA Model....Pages 405-410
Front Matter....Pages 341-341
Pedestrian Pulse Dispersion in an Underground Station....Pages 411-415
Population and Distance Criteria for Pedestrian Decisions....Pages 417-421
Simulation of the Evacuation of a Football Stadium Using the CA Model PedGo....Pages 423-428
Front Matter....Pages 429-429
Statistical Properties of Dense Granular Matter....Pages 431-444
Small Scale Modelling of Large Granular Systems in a Centrifuge....Pages 445-458
Weakly Frictional Granular Gases....Pages 459-473
The Physics of Overcharging....Pages 475-488
Computer Simulations of Magnetic Grains....Pages 489-501
Simulation of Particle Transport and Structure Formation by Deposition....Pages 503-512
Experiment and Simulation of Electrospray Particle-Flows for Controlled Release of Drugs....Pages 513-520
The Branly Effect and Contacting Grains in a Packing....Pages 521-524
Universal Wide Shear Zones in Granular Bulk Flow....Pages 525-530
Numerical Stress Response Functions of Static Granular Layers....Pages 531-536
Granular Segregation in Hydraulic Ripples....Pages 537-542
Grain Motion Under Air Flow....Pages 543-551
Bubble and Granular Flows : Differences and Similarities....Pages 553-557
The Global Property of the Dilute-to-Dense Transition of Granular Flows in a 2D Channel....Pages 559-567
From Granular Flux Model to Traffic Flow Description....Pages 569-577
Simple Models for Compartmentalized Sand....Pages 579-584
Several Numerical Approaches of Granular Flows Applied to Inclined Plane Studies....Pages 585-590
Front Matter....Pages 429-429
A Modified Tetris Model Including the Effect of Friction....Pages 591-596
An Aspect of Granulence in View of Multifractal Analysis....Pages 597-602