Traffic and Granular Flow

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• PREFACE

• PROLOGUE

• TRAFFIC

  • Some Remarks on the History of the Science of Traffic Flow

  • A Review and some Speculation about Speed-Flow Relationships on Freeways

  • Application of Traffic Flow Models

  • Particle Hopping vs. Fluid-Dynamical Models for Traffic Flow

  • Car Bunching and Traffic Jams in Cellular Automaton Models

  • Self-Organized Criticality and 1/f Noise in Traffic

  • Traffic Modeling by Means of Physical Concepts

  • Comparison of Models for the Instability of a Traffic Stream

  • Treatment of Random Variability in Traffic Modelling

  • Dynamical Model for Congestion of Freeway Traffic and Its Structural Stability

  • The Microscopic Modelling of Traffic Flow: Weaknesses and Potential Developments

  • Empirical Research for Modelling Driving Behaviour on Motorways

  • Emergent Local Control Properties in Particle Hopping Traffic Simulations

  • The Effect of Speed Controls in a Continuum Model of Traffic Flow

  • Dynamic Traffic Flow in Freeway Networks

  • Highway Traffic and Price Increase in the Baking Industry: Foundation of the Systematic Windshield Dirtology ;-)

  • Cellular Automata for Traffic Flow: Analytical Results

  • Traffic Simulations Using Cellular Automata: Comparison With Reality

  • Analyzing Traffic Flow by a Cellular Automaton

  • Effect of Adaptive Strategies on a Simple Model of Freeway Traffic

  • Phase Transitions in a Two-Dimensional Green Wave Traffic Model

  • Dynamical Phase Transitions in Two Dimensional Traffic Models

• GRANULAR FLOW

  • Density Waves in Dry Granular Flow

  • Microstructures and Kinetics in Rapid Granular Flows

  • Wave Instability in Liquid-Fluidized Beds

  • Gravity Driven Motion of a Single Sphere on a Rough Inclined Surface

  • Granular Flow Modelled by Brownian Particles

  • Kinematic Density Waves in a Two-Dimensional Granular Flow

  • Simulations of Granular Flow: Cracks in a Falling Sandpile

  • Transients in Homogeneous Granular Pipe Flow

  • Density Waves and Pressure Variations in Dry Granular Flows in a Vertical Pipe

  • Aggregation Phenomena in a Flow Channel

  • Pattern Formation by Horizontal Vibration of Granular Material

  • Stochastic Coefficient of Restitution—A Possible Way out of Inelastic Collapse

  • Particle Diffusion in a Horizontal, Rotating Drum

  • Angle of Repose in a Two-Dimensional Rotating Drum Model

  • Motion of a Ball on a Rough Inclined Plane

  • Lattice Gas Simulations of Granular Media

  • Self-Organized Criticality and Phase Transition in a Stochastic Sandpile Automaton

• LIST OF PARTICIPANTS