Traffic and Granular Flow ' 03

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIV

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2. Empirical Traffic Data

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Lane-Change Maneuvers Consuming Freeway Capacity

      • B. Coifman, S. Krishnamurthy, X. Wang

      Pages 3-14

   3. Empirical Description of Car-Following

      • P. Wagner

      Pages 15-27

   4. Optimization Potential of a Highway Network: An Empirical Study

      • W. Knospe, L. Santen, A. Schadschneider, M. Schreckenberg

      Pages 29-44

   5. Observation, Theory and Experiment for Freeway Traffic as Physics of Many-Body System

      • Y. Sugiyama, A. Nakayama, M. Fukui, K. Hasebe, M. Kikuchi, K. Nishinari et al.

      Pages 45-58

   6. Fluctuation in Expressway Traffic Flow

      • S. Tadaki, M. Kikuchi, A. Nakayama, K. Nishinari, A. Shibata, Y. Sugiyama et al.

      Pages 59-65

   7. Calibration and Validation of Microscopic Traffic Flow Models

      • E. Brockfeld, P. Wagner

      Pages 67-72

   8. Real Highway Traffic Simulations Based on a Cellular Automata Model

      • E.G. Campari, M. Clemente, G. Levi, L. Quadrani

      Pages 73-78

   9. Traffic Data Collection and Study with the BirdEye System

      • E.G. Campari, M. Clemente, G. Levi, L. Quadrani

      Pages 79-84

3. Traffic Models and Theory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. Probabilistic Traffic Flow Breakdown in Stochastic Car Following Models

      • D. Jost, K. Nagel

      Pages 87-103

   3. A Wave-Based Resolution Scheme for the Hydrodynamic LWR Traffic Flow Model

      • V. Henn

      Pages 105-124

   4. Various Scales for Traffic Flow Representation: Some Reflections

      • J.-B. Lesort, E. Bourrel, V. Henn

      Pages 125-139

   5. Comparison of Congested Pattern Features at Different Freeway Bottlenecks

      • B.S. Kerner, S.L. Klenov

      Pages 141-160

   6. Congestion Due to Merging Roads: Predictions of Three-Phase Traffic Theory

      • B.S. Kerner, S.L. Klenov, D.E. Wolf

      Pages 161-172

   7. Production, Supply, and Traffic Systems: A Unified Description

      • D. Helbing

      Pages 173-188

   8. Capacity Funnel Explained Using the Human-Kinetic Traffic Flow Model

      • C. Tampère, S.P. Hoogendoorn, B. van Arem

      Pages 189-197

   9. A Comparison of a Cellular Automaton and a Macroscopic Model

      • S. Maerivoet, S. Logghe, B. De Moor, B. Immers

      Pages 199-204

   10. Stochastic Description of Traffic Breakdown: Langevin Approach

       • R. Mahnke, J. Kaupužs, J. Tolmacheva

       Pages 205-210

These proceedings are the fifth in the series Traffic and Granular Flow, and we hope they will be as useful a reference as their predecessors. Both the realistic modelling of granular media and traffic flow present important challenges at the borderline between physics and engineering, and enormous progress has been made since 1995, when this series started. Still the research on these topics is thriving, so that this book again contains many new results. Some highlights addressed at this conference were the influence of long range electric and magnetic forces and ambient fluids on granular media, new precise traffic measurements, and experiments on the complex decision making of drivers. No doubt the “hot topics” addressed in granular matter research have diverged from those in traffic since the days when the obvious analogies between traffic jams on highways and dissipative clustering in granular flow intrigued both c- munities alike. However, now just this diversity became a stimulating feature of the conference. Many of us feel that our joint interest in complex systems, where many simple agents, be it vehicles or particles, give rise to surprising and fascin- ing phenomena, is ample justification for bringing these communities together: Traffic and Granular Flow has fostered cooperation and friendship across the scientific disciplines.

• Potential
• Schrödinger equation
• Simulation
• automata
• drivers' behaviour
• granular flow
• layers
• model
• modeling
• molecular dynamics simulation
• optimization
• pedestrian dynamics
• phase Transition
• stability
• traffic flow

• Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

  Serge P. Hoogendoorn, Piet H. L. Bovy

• Particle Technology, DelftChemTech, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands

  Stefan Luding

• Physik von Transport und Verkehr, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

  Michael Schreckenberg

• Theoretische Physik, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

  Dietrich E. Wolf

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