Throughout the last century, the automobile industry achieved remarkable milestones in
manufacturing reliable, safe, and affordable vehicles. Because of significant recent …

Since the subject of traffic dynamics has captured the interest of physicists, many surprising
effects have been revealed and explained. Some of the questions now understood are the …

In the so-called “microscopic” models of vehicular traffic, attention is paid explicitly to each
individual vehicle each of which is represented by a “particle”; the nature of the “interactions” …

Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) have been recently attracting an increasing attention
from both research and industry communities. One of the challenges posed by the study of …

It is postulated that lane-changing vehicles create voids in traffic streams, and that these
voids reduce flow. This mechanism is described with a model that tracks lane changers …

Vehicle lane change behavior, which is an important part of traffic flow theory, can have a
fundamental impact on the macro and micro characteristics of traffic flow. At the same time, it …

Microscopic modeling of multilane traffic is usually done by applying heuristic lane changing
rules and often with unsatisfying results. Recently, a cellular automaton model for two-lane …

Persistence in nonequilibrium systems Page 1 SPECIAL SECTION: Persistence in
nonequilibrium systems Satya N. Majumdar Department of Theoretical Physics, Tata Institute of …

In real traffic, a vehicle may perform different lane-changing behavior if its preceding vehicle
is different. Fast vehicle usually has aggressive lane-changing behavior when its preceding …

The movement of crowds is a field of research that attracts increasing interest. This is due to
three major reasons: pattern formation and selforganization processes that occur in crowd …