Traffic and Granular Flow’05

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Saturn’s Rings Seen by Cassini Spacecraft: Discoveries, Questions and New Problems....Pages 3-30
Universality Classes for Force Networks in Jammed Matter....Pages 31-40
Species Segregation and Dynamical Instability of Horizontally Vibrated Granular Mixtures....Pages 41-51
Lattice Versus Lennard-Jones Models with a Net Particle Flow....Pages 53-62
Dune Formation....Pages 63-77
Dynamics of Aeolian Sand Heaps and Dunes: The Influence of the Wind Strength....Pages 79-89
Granular Shearing and Barkhausen Noise....Pages 91-100
Component Analysis of Granular Friction....Pages 101-110
Granular Flow and Pattern Formation on a Vibratory Conveyor....Pages 111-128
Erosion Waves: When a Model Experiment Meets a Theory....Pages 129-145
Bidisperse Granular Flow on Inclined Rough Planes....Pages 147-156
Sheared and Vibrated Granular Gas in Microgravity....Pages 157-166
A Domino Model for Granular Surface Flow....Pages 167-179
Morphological Change of Crack Patterns Induced by Memory Effect of Drying Paste....Pages 181-186
Hydrodynamic Interactions Between Electrically Charged Grains in Suspensions....Pages 187-192
Particle Discharge Process from a Capillary Pipe....Pages 193-202
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
From Intracellular Traffic to a Novel Class of Driven Lattice Gas Models....Pages 205-222
Traffic Phenomena in Biology: From Molecular Motors to Organisms....Pages 223-238
Cooperative Behaviour of Semiflexible Polymers and Filaments....Pages 239-249
Traffic of Molecular Motors....Pages 251-261
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
Stochastic Modelling and Experiments on Intra-Cellular Transport of Single-Headed Molecular Motors....Pages 263-268
Traffic on Bidirectional Ant Trails: Coarsening Behaviour and Fundamental Diagrams....Pages 269-276
Phase Diagram of Group Formation in 2-D Optimal Velocity Model....Pages 277-282
On the Harmonic-Mean Property of Model Dispersive Systems Emerging Under Mononuclear, Mixed and Polynuclear Path Conditions....Pages 283-296
Front Matter....Pages 297-297
Pedestrian Free Speed Behavior in Crossing Flows....Pages 299-304
The Fundamental Diagram of Pedestrian Movement Revisited — Empirical Results and Modelling....Pages 305-314
Flow-Density Relations for Pedestrian Traffic....Pages 315-322
Avoiding Inefficient Oscillations in Intersecting Vehicle and Pedestrian Flows by a Speed Limit....Pages 323-328
Microscopic Calibration and Validation of Pedestrian Models: Cross-Comparison of Models Using Experimental Data....Pages 329-340
The Simulation of Crowds at Very Large Events....Pages 341-346
Transport-Equilibrium Schemes for Pedestrian Flows with Nonclassical Shocks....Pages 347-356
Front Matter....Pages 357-357
Decision-Making and Transport Costs in Complex Networks....Pages 359-374
Specifica of Fundamental Diagram in Urban Traffic....Pages 375-382
A Fluidodynamic Model for Traffic in a Road Network....Pages 383-392
Approach to Critical Link Analysis of Robustness for Dynamical Road Networks....Pages 393-402
Traffic Flow in Bogotá....Pages 403-409
Simulating Pedestrian-Vehicle Interaction in an Urban Network Using Cellular Automata and Multi-Agent Models....Pages 411-418
Multi-Phase Signal Setting and Capacity of Intersections....Pages 419-425
Stability of Flows on Networks....Pages 427-435
Laboratory Experiments with Nagel-Schreckenberg Algorithm....Pages 437-444
Front Matter....Pages 445-445
Phase Transitions in Stochastic Models of Flow....Pages 447-459
Metastability of Traffic Flow in Zero-Range Model....Pages 461-466
Extension of Cluster Dynamics to Cellular Automata with Shuffle Update....Pages 467-472
Asymmetric Exclusion Processes with Non-Factorizing Steady States....Pages 473-479
Two-Capacity Flow: Cellular Automata Simulations and Kinematic-Wave Models....Pages 481-502
Mechanical Restriction Versus Human Overreaction: Accident Avoidance and Two-Lane Traffic Simulations....Pages 503-508
Ramp Effects in Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Processes....Pages 509-514
Linking Cellular Automata and Optimal-Velocity Models Through Wave Selections at Bottlenecks....Pages 515-520
Linking Synchronized Flow and Kinematic Waves....Pages 521-526
Probabilistic Description of Traffic Breakdown....Pages 527-536
How to Calculate Traffic Breakdown Probability?....Pages 537-543
Models for Highway Traffic and Their Connections to Thermodynamics....Pages 545-550
Variance-Driven Traffic Dynamics....Pages 551-557
Stability of Steady State Solutions in Balanced Vehicular Traffic....Pages 559-564
Wave Selection Problems in the Presence of a Bottleneck....Pages 565-575
Impacts of Lane Changes at Merge Bottlenecks: A Theory and Strategies to Maximize Capacity....Pages 577-586
Modeling a Bottleneck by the Aw-Rascle Model with Phase Transitions....Pages 587-593
Solvability and Metastability of the Stochastic Optimal Velocity Model....Pages 595-601
Modeling of Flows with Power-Law Spectral Densities and Power-Law Distributions of Flow Intensities....Pages 603-611
Relationship Between Non-Markovian- and Drift-Fokker-Planck Equation....Pages 613-619
Front Matter....Pages 621-621
Accidents in Platoons of Vehicles....Pages 623-631
Jam-Avoiding Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) and its Impact on Traffic Dynamics....Pages 633-643
Inter-Vehicle Communication on Freeways: Statistical Properties of Information Propagation in Ad-Hoc Networks....Pages 645-655
Effects of Advanced Traveller Information Systems on Agents’ Behaviour in a Traffic Scenario....Pages 657-666
Chaotic Traffic Flows on Two Crossroads Caused by Real-Time Traffic Information....Pages 667-673
A Vehicle Detection and Tracking Approach Using Probe Vehicle LIDAR Data....Pages 675-685
Multi-Anticipative Car-Following Behavior: An Empirical Analysis....Pages 687-697
Statistical Analysis of Floating-Car Data: An Empirical Study....Pages 699-708
Scale-Free Features in the Observed Traffic Flow....Pages 709-715
States of Traffic Flow in the Deep Lefortovo Tunnel (Moscow): Empirical Data....Pages 717-723
Back Matter....Pages 725-739