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

by Helbing, Dirk; Herrmann, Hans J.; Schreckenberg, M.; Wolf, D. E.

• ISBN13: 9783540670919
• ISBN10: 3540670912
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Proceedings of an international workshop, Traffic and Granular Flow '99, held in Stuttgart on September 27-29, 1999. Answers the question: 'Are there common phenomena and laws in the dynamic behavior of granular materials, traffic, and socio-economic systems?'

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. V
Preface	p. VII
List of Participants	p. XVII
Social Dynamics
Recurrence in Physical and Social Systems	p. 3
Econophysics: What Can Physicists Contribute to Economics?	p. 15
Catastrophe Effects and Optimal Extensions of Transportation Flows in the Developing Urban System: A Review	p. 31
Evolutionary Models of Innovation Dynamics	p. 43
Universality of Group Decision Making	p. 57
Formation of Opinions under the Influence of Competing Agents - a Mean Field Approach	p. 69
Search for Intelligence by Motion Analysis ;-)	p. 81
Anticipatory Traffic Forecast Using Multi-Agent Techniques	p. 87
Modal Split and Social Dilemmas	p. 93
Synthetising Brillouin Information-Thermodynamic Approach with the Social Synergetics Weidlich-Haag Model	p. 99
Biology, Internet, Transport Theory
Evolution of Molecular Phenotypes - A Physicist's View of Darwin's Principle	p. 109
Stochastic Resonance and Brownian Machinery: New Results - New Applications - New Goals	p. 133
Studies of Bacterial Cooperative Organization	p. 135
Collective Motion and Optimal Self-Organisation in Self-Driven Systems	p. 147
Active Brownian Particles with Internal Energy Depot	p. 161
Associative Memory of a Pulse-Coupled Noisy Neural Network with Delays: The Lighthouse Model	p. 173
Application of Neural Networks for Predictive and Control Purposes	p. 181
Optimizing Traffic in Virtual and Real Space	p. 193
Is Boltzmann's Equation Physically Insufficient?	p. 205
Fractional Evolution Equations and Irreversibility	p. 215
Dynamical Theory of Steady State Selection in Open Driven Diffusive Systems	p. 227
Application of a Deterministic Scheme for the Boltzmann Equation in Modelling Shock Wave Focusing	p. 233
Nonlinear Waves and Moving Clusters on Rings	p. 239
Freezing by Heating in a Pedestrian Model	p. 245
Traffic Data and Applications
Phase Transitions in Traffic Flow	p. 253
An Integrated Model of Transport and Urban Evolution (ITEM) - Traffic and City Development in Emergent Nations	p. 285
Statistical Analysis of Freeway Traffic	p. 307
Nonlinear Control of Stop-and-Go Traffic	p. 315
Online Simulation and State Estimation for a Traffic Flow Model	p. 321
Traffic News by Dynamic Fuzzy Classification	p. 327
Evaluation of Single Vehicle Data in Dependence of the Vehicle-Type, Lane, and Site	p. 333
Forecasting of Traffic Congestion	p. 339
Empirical Phase Diagram of Traffic Flow on Highways with On-Ramp	p. 345
On-Line Simulation of the Freeway Network of North Rhine-Westphalia.	p. 351
Traffic Data Collection Using Image Processing Technology	p. 357
Modelling of Traffic Flow
Microscopic Simulation of Congested Traffic	p. 365
Order Parameter BS BJl Additional State Variable of Unstable Traffic Flow	p. 377
Macroscopic Simulation of Open Systems and Micro-Macro Link	p. 383
Relating Car-Following and Continuum Models of Road Traffic	p. 389
Microscopic Randomness in Follow-the-Leader Dynamics	p. 395
"Car-SPH": A Lagrangian Particle Scheme for the Solution of the Macroscopic Traffic Flow Equations	p. 401
An Exactly Solvable Two-Way Traffic Model with Ordered Sequential Update	p. 407
Exact Traveling Cluster Solutions of Differential Equations with Delay for a Traffic Flow Model	p. 413
Stable and Metastable States in Congested Traffic	p. 419
Detailed Microscopic Rules to Simulate Multilane Freeway Traffic	p. 425
CA Models for Traffic Flow: Comparison with Empirical Single-Vehicle Data	p. 431
A New Cellular Automata Model for City Traffic	p. 437
Stochastic Boundary Conditions in the Nagel-Schreckenberg Traffic Model	p. 443
A Stochastic Multi-Cluster Model of Freeway Traffic	p. 449
Granular Dynamics
Jamming Patterns and Blockade Statistics in Model Granular Flows	p. 457
Kinetics of Granular Gases	p. 469
Particle Segregation in the Context of the Species Momentum Balances	p. 481
Avalanche Parameters: Dependence on the Size of the Granular Packing	p. 489
Ripple Formation in a Saltation-Avalanche Model	p. 495
Particle Diffusion and Segregation in Rotating Cylinders	p. 499
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Cohesive Granular Materials	p. 505
A Model for Slowly Moving Granular Matter	p. 511
Pressure Distribution of a Two-Dimensional Sandpile	p. 517
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