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

"Are there common phenomena and laws in the dynamic behavior of granular materials, traffic, and socio-economic systems?" The answers given at the international workshop "Traffic and Granular Flow '99" are presented in this volume. From a physical standpoint, all these syste...

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Other Authors: Helbing, D. (Editor), Herrmann, H.J. (Editor), Schreckenberg, M. (Editor), Wolf, D.E. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2000, 2000
Edition:1st ed. 2000
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • List of Participants
  • Social Dynamics
  • Recurrence in Physical and Social Systems
  • Econophysics: What Can Physicists Contribute to Economics?
  • Catastrophe Effects and Optimal Extensions of Transportation Flows in the Developing Urban System: A Review
  • Evolutionary Models of Innovation Dynamics
  • Universality of Group Decision Making
  • Formation of Opinions under the Influence of Competing Agents -a Mean Field Approach
  • Search for Intelligence by Motion Analysis ;-)
  • Anticipatory Traffic Forecast Using Multi-Agent Techniques
  • Modal Split and Social Dilemmas
  • Synthetising Brillouin Information-Thermodynamic Approach with the Social Synergetics Weidlich-Haag Model
  • Biology, Internet, Transport Theory
  • Evolution of Molecular Phenotypes - A Physicist’s View of Darwin’s Principle
  • Stochastic Resonance and Brownian Machinery: New Results -New Applications - New Goals
  • Studies of Bacterial Cooperative Organization
  • Online Simulation and State Estimation for a Traffic Flow Model
  • Traffic News by Dynamic Fuzzy Classification
  • Evaluation of Single Vehicle Data in Dependence of the Vehicle-Type, Lane, and Site
  • Forecasting of Traffic Congestion
  • Empirical Phase Diagram of Traffic Flow on Highways with On-Ramp
  • On-Line Simulation of the Freeway Network of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Traffic Data Collection Using Image Processing Technology
  • Modelling of Traffic Flow
  • Microscopic Simulation of Congested Traffic
  • Order Parameter as an Additional State Variable of Unstable Traffic Flow
  • Macroscopic Simulation of Open Systems and Micro-Macro Link
  • Relating Car-Following and Continuum Models of Road Traffic
  • Microscopic Randomness in Foliow-the-Leader Dynamics
  • “Car-SPH”: A Lagrangian Particle Scheme for the Solution of the Macroscopic Traffic Flow Equations
  • An Exactly Solvable Two-Way Traffic Model with Ordered Sequential Update
  • Collective Motion and Optimal Self-Organisation in Self-Driven Systems
  • Active Brownian Particles with Internal Energy Depot
  • Associative Memory of a Pulse-Coupled Noisy Neural Network with Delays: The Lighthouse Model
  • Application of Neural Networks for Predictive and Control Purposes
  • Optimizing Traffic in Virtual and Real Space
  • Is Boltzmann’s Equation Physically Insufficient?
  • Fractional Evolution Equations and Irreversibility
  • Dynamical Theory of Steady State Selection in Open Driven Diffusive Systems
  • Application of a Deterministic Scheme for the Boltzmann Equation in Modelling Shock Wave Focusing
  • Nonlinear Waves and Moving Clusters on Rings
  • Freezing by Heating in a Pedestrian Model
  • Traffic Data and Applications
  • Phase Transitions in Traffic Flow
  • An Integrated Model of Transport and Urban Evolution (ITEM) -Traffic and City Development in Emergent Nations
  • Statistical Analysis of Freeway Traffic
  • Nonlinear Control of Stop-and-Go Traffic
  • Pressure Distribution of a Two-Dimensional Sandpile
  • Exact Traveling Cluster Solutions of Differential Equations with Delay for a Traffic Flow Model
  • Stable and Metastable States in Congested Traffic
  • Detailed Microscopic Rules to Simulate Multilane Freeway Traffic
  • CA Models for Traffic Flow: Comparison with Empirical Single-Vehicle Data
  • A New Cellular Automata Model for City Traffic
  • Stochastic Boundary Conditions in the Nagel-Schreckenberg Traffic Model
  • A Stochastic Multi-Cluster Model of Freeway Traffic
  • Granular Dynamics
  • Jamming Patterns and Blockade Statistics in Model Granular Flows
  • Kinetics of Granular Gases
  • Particle Segregation in the Context of the Species Momentum Balances
  • Avalanche Parameters: Dependence on the Size of the Granular Packing
  • Ripple Formation in a Saltation-Avalanche Model
  • Particle Diffusion and Segregation in Rotating Cylinders
  • Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Cohesive Granular Materials
  • A Model for Slowly Moving Granular Matter