Taming macroscopic jamming in transportation networks

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2015/06/P06013zbMATH Open1456.82732arXiv1502.04818OpenAlexW2963611001MaRDI QIDQ3302289FDOQ3302289

Authors: Takahiro Ezaki, Ryosuke Nishi, Katsuhiro Nishinari 

Publication date: 11 August 2020

Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In transportation networks, a spontaneous jamming transition is often observed, e.g in urban road networks and airport networks. Because of this instability, flow distribution is significantly imbalanced on a macroscopic level. To mitigate the congestion, we consider a simple control method, in which congested nodes are closed temporarily, and investigate how it influences the overall system. Depending on the timing of the node closure and opening, and congestion level of a network, the system displays three different phases: free-flow phase, controlled phase, and deadlock phase. We show that when the system is in the controlled phase, the average flow is significantly improved, whereas when in the deadlock phase, the flow drops to zero. We study how the control method increases the network flow and obtain their transition boundary analytically.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.04818

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamic and nonequilibrium phase transitions (general) in statistical mechanics (82C26)

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