Traffic and Granular Flow ’99: Social, Traffic, and Granular Dynamics

Front Matter....Pages I-XXIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Recurrence in Physical and Social Systems....Pages 3-14
Econophysics: What Can Physicists Contribute to Economics?....Pages 15-30
Catastrophe Effects and Optimal Extensions of Transportation Flows in the Developing Urban System: A Review....Pages 31-41
Evolutionary Models of Innovation Dynamics....Pages 43-56
Universality of Group Decision Making....Pages 57-67
Formation of Opinions under the Influence of Competing Agents — a Mean Field Approach....Pages 69-80
Search for Intelligence by Motion Analysis....Pages 81-86
Anticipatory Traffic Forecast Using Multi-Agent Techniques....Pages 87-92
Modal Split and Social Dilemmas....Pages 93-98
Synthesising the Brillouin Information- Thermodynamic Approach with the Social Synergetics Weidlich-Haag Model....Pages 99-105
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Evolution of Molecular Phenotypes - A Physicist’s View of Darwin’s Principle....Pages 109-132
Stochastic Resonance and Brownian Machinery: New Results — New Applications - New Goals....Pages 133-134
Studies of Bacterial Cooperative Organization....Pages 135-145
Collective Motion and Optimal Self-Organisation in Self-Driven Systems....Pages 147-160
Active Brownian Particles with Internal Energy Depot....Pages 161-172
Associative Memory of a Pulse-Coupled Noisy Neural Network with Delays: The Lighthouse Model....Pages 173-180
Application of Neural Networks for Predictive and Control Purposes....Pages 181-192
Optimizing Traffic in Virtual and Real Space....Pages 193-204
Is Boltzmann’s Equation Physically Insufficient?....Pages 205-213
Fractional Evolution Equations and Irreversibility....Pages 215-226
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Dynamical Theory of Steady State Selection in Open Driven Diffusive Systems....Pages 227-232
Application of a Deterministic Scheme for the Boltzmann Equation in Modelling Shock Wave Focusing....Pages 233-238
Nonlinear Waves and Moving Clusters on Rings....Pages 239-244
Freezing by Heating in a Pedestrian Model....Pages 245-250
Front Matter....Pages 251-251
Phase Transitions in Traffic Flow....Pages 253-283
An Integrated Model of Transport and Urban Evolution (ITEM)- Traffic and City Development in Emergent Nations....Pages 285-306
Statistical Analysis of Freeway Traffic....Pages 307-314
Nonlinear Control of Stop-and-Go Traffic....Pages 315-320
Online Simulation and State Estimation for a Traffic Flow Model....Pages 321-326
Traffic News by Dynamic Fuzzy Classification....Pages 327-332
Evaluation of Single Vehicle Data in Dependence of the Vehicle-Type, Lane, and Site....Pages 333-338
Forecasting of Traffic Congestion....Pages 339-344
Empirical Phase Diagram of Traffic Flow on Highways with On-Ramps....Pages 345-350
On-Line Simulation of the Freeway Network of North Rhine-Westphalia....Pages 351-356
Traffic Data Collection Using Image Processing Technology....Pages 357-362
Front Matter....Pages 363-363
Microscopic Simulation of Congested Traffic....Pages 365-376
Order Parameter as an Additional State Variable of Unstable Traffic Flow....Pages 377-382
Macroscopic Simulation of Open Systems and Micro-Macro Link....Pages 383-388
Relating Car-Following and Continuum Models of Road Traffic....Pages 389-394
Microscopic Randomness in Follow-the-Leader Dynamics....Pages 395-400
Front Matter....Pages 363-363
“Car-SPH”: A Lagrangian Particle Scheme for the Solution of the Macroscopic Traffic Flow Equations....Pages 401-406
An Exactly Solvable Two-Way Traffic Model with Ordered Sequential Update....Pages 407-412
Exact Traveling Cluster Solutions of Differential Equations with Delay for a Traffic Flow Model....Pages 413-418
Stable and Metastable States in Congested Traffic....Pages 419-424
Detailed Microscopic Rules to Simulate Multilane Freeway Traffic....Pages 425-430
CA Models for Traffic Flow: Comparison with Empirical Single-Vehicle Data....Pages 431-436
A New Cellular Automaton Model for City Traffic....Pages 437-442
Stochastic Boundary Conditions in the Nagel-Schreckenberg Traffic Model....Pages 443-448
A Stochastic Multi—Cluster Model of Freeway Traffic....Pages 449-454
Front Matter....Pages 455-455
Jamming Patterns and Blockade Statistics in Model Granular Flows....Pages 457-468
Kinetics of Granular Gases....Pages 469-480
Particle Segregation in the Context of the Species Momentum Balances....Pages 481-487
Avalanche Parameters: Dependence on the Size of the Granular Packing....Pages 489-494
Ripple Formation in a Saltation-Avalanche Model....Pages 495-498
Particle Diffusion and Segregation in Rotating Cylinders....Pages 499-504
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Cohesive Granular Materials....Pages 505-510
A Model for Slowly Moving Granular Matter....Pages 511-516
Pressure Distribution of a Two-Dimensional Sandpile....Pages 517-522