Traffic simulation review

[Ralf Stephan]

As there was recently a question about modelling traffic, I found
a voluminous review paper at 

http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0007053

Statistical Physics of Vehicular Traffic and Some Related Systems

   Authors: Debashish Chowdhury, Ludger Santen, Andreas Schadschneider
   Comments: 170 pages, Latex, figures included
   Subj-class: Statistical Mechanics
   Journal-ref: Physics Reports 329, 199 (2000)
   
     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" among these particles is determined by the way the
     vehicles influence each others' movement. Therefore, vehicular
     traffic, modeled as a system of interacting "particles" driven far
     from equilibrium, offers the possibility to study various
     fundamental aspects of truly nonequilibrium systems which are of
     current interest in statistical physics. Analytical as well as
     numerical techniques of statistical physics are being used to study
     these models to understand rich variety of physical phenomena
     exhibited by vehicular traffic. Some of these phenomena, observed
     in vehicular traffic under different circumstances, include
     transitions from one dynamical phase to another, criticality and
     self-organized criticality, metastability and hysteresis,
     phase-segregation, etc. In this critical review, written from the
     perspective of statistical physics, we explain the guiding
     principles behind all the main theoretical approaches. But we
     present detailed discussions on the results obtained mainly from
     the so-called "particle-hopping" models, particularly emphasizing
     those which have been formulated in recent years using the language
     of cellular automata.
     
  Paper: Source (575kb), PostScript, or Other formats


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