Traffic and Granular Flow ’07

Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Modelling of Traffic Flow from an Engineer’s Perspective....Pages 3-17
Cellular Automaton Approach to Highway Traffic: What do we Know?....Pages 19-34
Replications in Stochastic Traffic Flow Models: Incremental Method to Determine Sufficient Number of Runs....Pages 35-44
Capacity and Capacity Drop of a Revolving Door....Pages 45-54
Risk Index Modeling for Real-Time Motorway Traffic Crash Prediction....Pages 55-64
Colliding Particles: Beyond Accident-Free Car Following Models....Pages 65-84
Dynamic First-Order Modeling of Phase-Transition Probabilities....Pages 85-92
Traffic Dynamics on a Rotary....Pages 93-103
Effect of Adaptive Cruise Control Vehicles on Phase Transition in a Mixture with Manual Vehicles....Pages 105-115
Calibration of Car-Following Models Using Floating Car Data....Pages 117-127
A Queueing Theory Approach for a Multi-Speed Exclusion Process....Pages 129-138
A Stochastic Macroscopic Traffic Model Devoid of Diffusion....Pages 139-150
A Multiclass Car-Following Rule Based on the LWR Model....Pages 151-160
A Cross Entropy Based Multi-Agent Approach to Traffic Assignment Problems....Pages 161-170
Handling of Contacts in Crowd Motion Simulations....Pages 171-180
Optimal Velocity Model Via Considering Multi-Velocity Difference Ahead....Pages 181-188
Empirical Data for Pedestrian Flow Through Bottlenecks....Pages 189-199
Modeling Synchronized Flow at Highway Bottlenecks....Pages 201-210
Modeling Lane-Changing Decisions with MOBIL....Pages 211-221
Kinetic Derivation for a Traffic Flow Model....Pages 223-231
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Qualitative Change of Car-Following Behavior Observed in Real Traffic....Pages 233-243
Phase Transition Induced by Homogeneous Initial Distribution of Cars....Pages 245-251
Similarity Between Temporal and Spatial Structures in Pattern Formation of Dissipative Non-Equilibrium System....Pages 253-258
Pattern Formation in Traffic Microscopic Model....Pages 259-264
Stability of Flow on a Ring with Three Links....Pages 265-272
Improving Pedestrian Micro-Simulations with Event Steps....Pages 273-280
Road Traffic Models Using Petri Nets and Minplus Algebra....Pages 281-286
Vehicular Traffic Flow at a Non-Signalised Intersection....Pages 287-292
Traffic Anticipation Effect in the Lattice Hydrodynamic Model....Pages 293-299
Is the Nearest Neighbor Distribution Enough to Describe the Statistical Behavior of a Domain System?....Pages 301-306
Statistical Properties of Disordered Driven Lattice Gases with Open Boundaries....Pages 307-313
Control of Traffic Congestion in the Modified Coupled Map Car-Following Model Based on Intelligent Transportation System....Pages 315-320
Generic Driving Behavior Modeling by Differential Game Theory....Pages 321-331
A Model for City Traffic....Pages 333-338
Traffic Behaviors of Mixed Bicycle System in the Multi-Value Cellular Automata Model....Pages 339-350
Empirical Differences Between Time Mean Speed and Space Mean Speed....Pages 351-356
Anisotropy and Stabilization of Traffic Flow in Extended Cooperative Driving Lattice Hydrodynamic Models Based on Backward-Looking Effect....Pages 357-363
Complex Fundamental Diagram of Traffic Flow in the Deep Lefortovo Tunnel (Moscow)....Pages 365-371
Three-Frame Algorithm of Car Path Reconstruction from Airborne Traffic Data....Pages 373-379
Vehicular Motion and Traffic Breakdown: Evaluation of Energy Balance....Pages 381-387
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Detailed Data of Traffic Jam Experiment....Pages 389-394
Prediction Accuracy of Evacuation Times for High-Rise Buildings and Simple Geometries by Using Different Software-Tools....Pages 395-400
Statistical Approach to Traffic Flow....Pages 401-406
A Public Conveyance Model and Analysis on Clustering of Vehicles....Pages 407-412
Modelling and Simulating Several Time-Delay Mechanisms in Human and Automated Driving....Pages 413-419
Multi-Class First Order Traffic Flow Modeling....Pages 421-426
Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Traffic Flow....Pages 427-433
Phase Transitions and Even/Odd Effects in Asymmetric Exclusion Models....Pages 435-440
Simulation and Mean Field Analysis on Pedestrian Dynamics Around an Exit....Pages 441-446
A Density-Dependent NaSch Model for Traffic Flow Controlled by a Traffic Light....Pages 447-452
Front Matter....Pages 453-453
Large-Scale Collective Behavior of Swimming Microorganisms at High Concentrations....Pages 455-470
Flow and Jamming of Granular Matter Through an Orifice....Pages 471-486
A Fluctuating Energy Model for Dense Granular Flows....Pages 487-496
Influence of Particle Shape on Shear Stress in Granular Media....Pages 497-505
Motion of an Intruder Through a Two Dimensional Disordered Granular Medium....Pages 507-516
Silo Collapse: An Experimental Study....Pages 517-523
Rough Cylindrical Object Immersed in a Granular Stream of Hard Disks....Pages 525-533
Stability and Jamming Transition in Hard Granular Materials: Algebraic Graph Theory....Pages 535-544
Vertical Granular Transport in a Vibrated U-Tube....Pages 545-554
Dynamics of Dissipative System with Asymmetric Interaction and N -Body Problem for the Emergence of Moving Cluster....Pages 555-563
Front Matter....Pages 453-453
Leidenfrost Granular Flows....Pages 565-576
Granular Rayleigh-Taylor Instability....Pages 577-586
Morphology of Polydisperse Granular Media....Pages 587-596
Kinetic Energy Fluctuations and Diffusivity in a 2D Vibrated Granular Packing....Pages 597-602
Modelling and Simulation of a Maze-Forming Process in Granular-Fluid Systems....Pages 603-608
Description of Wire-Reinforced Geomaterials by Numerical Discrete Experiments....Pages 609-614
Granular Flow Under the Action of Centrifugal Force: A Critical Dynamic Friction Coefficient....Pages 615-620
Interfacial Instability of a Confined Suspension Under Oscillating Shear....Pages 621-627
Pattern Formation in Slowly Drained Granular-Fluid Systems....Pages 629-634
Emerging Stripe Patterns in Drying Suspension Droplets....Pages 635-639
Behaviour of Railway Ballast Under Cycling Loading....Pages 641-646
Penetration of a Projectile by Impact into a Granular Medium....Pages 647-652
Rheological Transition in Granular Media....Pages 653-658
Stress Transmission in a Multi-Phase Granular Packing....Pages 659-664
Front Matter....Pages 665-665
Non-Equilibrium Collective Transport on Molecular Highways....Pages 667-677
Traffic of Molecular Motors: From Theory to Experiments....Pages 679-688
Numerical Investigations on Coupling of Asymmetric Exclusion Process with Zero Range Process....Pages 689-694
Traffic by Small Teams of Molecular Motors....Pages 695-700
Traffic Flow on Ant Trails: Empirical Results vs. Theoretical Predictions....Pages 701-706
Front Matter....Pages 707-707
Modeling Metropolis Public Transport....Pages 709-719
Front Matter....Pages 707-707
Attack Vulnerability of Public Transport Networks....Pages 721-731
Traffic Dynamics Based on Local Routing Strategy in a Weighted Scale-Free Network....Pages 733-738
Performance Evaluation of VANET Under Realistic Vehicular Traffic Assumption....Pages 739-744
Packet Flow and its Temporal Properties in the Internet....Pages 745-750