Properties of Phase Transition of Traffic Flow on Urban Expressway Systems with Ramps and Accessory Roads

In this paper, we develop a cellular automaton model to describe the phase transition of traffic flow on urban expressway systems with on-off-ramps and accessory roads. The lane changing rules are given in detailed, the numerical results show that the main road and the accessory road both produce phase transitions. These phase transitions will often be influenced by the number of lanes, lane changing, the ramp flow, the input flow rate, and the geometry structure.     

Noise-Induced Phase Transition in Traffic Flow

One of the dynamic phases of the traffic flow is the traffic jam. It appears in traffic flow when the vehicledensity is larger than the critical value. In this paper, a new method is presented to investigate the traffic jam when thevehicle density is smaller than the critical value. In our method, we introduce noise into the traffic system after sufficienttransient time. Under the effect of noise, the traffic jam appears, and the phase transition from tree to synchronized flowoccurs in traffic flow. Our method is tested for the deterministic NaSch traffic model. The simulation results demonstratethat there exist a broad range of lower densities at which the noise effect leading to traffic jam can be observed.     

A New Macro Model for Traffic Flow on a Highway with Ramps and Numerical Tests

In this paper, we present a new macro model for traffic flow on a highway with ramps based on the existing models. We use the new model to study the effects of on-off-ramp on the main road traffic during the morning rush period and the evening rush period. Numerical tests show that, during the two rush periods, these effects are often different and related to the status of the main road traffic. If the main road traffic flow is uniform, then ramps always produce stop-and-go traffic when the main road density is between two critical values, and ramps have little effect on the main road traffic when the main road density is less than the smaller critical value or greater than the larger critical value. If a small perturbation appears on the main road, ramp may lead to stop-and-go traffic, or relieve or even eliminate the stop-and-go traffic, under different circumstances. These results are consistent with real traffic, which shows that the new model is reasonable.     

Analysis of Phase Transition in Traffic Flow based on a New Model of Driving Decision

Different driving decisions will cause different processes of phase transition in traffic flow.To reveal the inner mechanism, this paper built a new cellular automaton (CA) model,based on the driving decision (DD). In the DD model, a driver's decision is divided intothree stages: decision-making, action, and result. The acceleration is taken as a decisionvariable and three core factors, i.e. distance between adjacent vehicles, their own velocity,and the preceding vehicle's velocity, are considered. Simulation results show that the DDmodel can simulate the synchronized flow effectively and describe the phase transitionin traffic flow well. Further analyses illustrate that various density will cause the phasetransition and the random probability will impact the process. Compared with the traditional NaSch model, the DD model considered the preceding vehicle's velocity, the deceleration limitation, and a safe
distance, so it can depict closer to the driver preferences on pursuing safety, stability and fuel-saving and has strong theoreticalinnovation for future studies.     

Traffic Flow States in a Freeway with Bottleneck

The system of mixture of single lane and double lane is studied by a cellular automata model, which is developed by us based on the Nagel and Schreckenberg's models. We justify that the model can reach a stable states quickly. The density distributions of the stable state is presented for several cases, which illustrate the manner of the congestion. The relationship between the outflow rate and the total number of vehicles and that between the outflow rate and the density just before the bottleneck are both given. Comparing with the relationship that occurring in the granular flow, we conclude that the transition from the free traffic flow to the congested traffic flow can also be attributed to the abrupt variation through unstable flow state, which can naturally explain the discontinuities and the complex time variation behavior observed in the traffic flow experiments.     

速度限制对交通流的影响

运用元胞自动机模型研究单车道路面上设立限速区对交通流的影响.计算机模拟结果显示,在交通流与密度的基本图中存在饱和交通流量,其大小取决于限速区的最大速度.限速区的设立导致不同相的分离.在确定性的模型中,当车辆密度较低时,存在两种不同的自由流相;而当车辆密度较高时,出现最大交通流相和自由流相.在随机模型中,车辆密度较高时,出现最大交通流相-堵塞相-自由流.对交通流以及临界密度等量给出一些解析结果.     

Phase Transition and Physical Properties of InS

Using the crystal structure prediction method based on particle swarm optimization algorithm, three phases(P nnm, C2/m and Pm-3 m) for InS are predicted. The new phase Pm-3m of InS under high pressure is firstly reported in the work. The structural features and electronic structure under high pressure of InS are fully investigated. We predicted the stable ground-state structure of InS was the P nnm phase and phase transformation of InS from P nnm phase to P m-3 m phase is firstly found at the pressure of about 29.5 GPa. According to the calculated enthalpies of InS with four structures in the pressure range from 20 GPa to 45 GPa, we find the C2/m phase is a metastable phase. The calculated band gap value of about 2.08 eV for InS with P nnm structure at 0 GPa agrees well with the experimental value. Moreover, the electronic structure suggests that the C2/m and P m-3m phase are metallic phases.     

Incident Detection Method of Expressway Based on Traffic Flow Simulation Model

The expressway traffic incidents have the characteristics of high harmful, strong destructive and refractory. Incident detection can guarantee smooth operation of the expressway, reduce traffic congestion and avoid secondary accident by informing the accident, detection and treatment timely. In this paper, an incident detection method is proposed using the toll station data that takes into account the traffic ratio at the entrances and crossway in the network. The expressway traffic simulation model is improved and a simulation algorithm is established to describe the movement of the vehicles. A numerical example is experimented on the expressway network of Shandong province. The proposed method can effectively detect the expressway incidents, and dynamically estimate the traffic network states so as to provide advice for the highway management department.     

顶部节流条件下S型柔性立管内油气水三相流流型转变实验研究

实验研究了集输-立管系统中,立管顶部节流条件下S型柔性立管内油气水三相流流型及其转变机理.发现,随着阀门开度的减小,S型柔性立管内依次会出现严重段塞流、类弹状流和类泡状流.背压的升高是促使流型发生转变的原因,升高的背压抵消了立管上游封闭气体的压力,从析抑制了立管内气相的运动速度.本文建立了节流过程中S型柔性立管内流型间...     

纳米二氧化钒薄膜的电学与光学相变特性

采用双离子束溅射氧化钒薄膜附加热处理的方式制备了纳米二氧化钒薄膜。在热驱动方式下,分别利用四探针测试技术和傅里叶变换红外光谱技术对纳米二氧化钒薄膜的电学与光学半导体-金属相变特性进行了测试与分析。实验结果表明,电学相变特性与光学相变特性之间存在明显的偏差,电学相变温度为63 ℃,高于光学相变温度,60 ℃;电学相变持续的温度宽度较光学相变持续温度宽度宽;在红外光波段,随着波长的增加,纳米二氧化钒薄膜的光学相变温度逐渐增大,由半导体相向金属相转变的初始温度逐渐升高,相变持续的温度宽度变窄。在红外光波段,纳米二氧化钒薄膜的光学相变特性可以通过光波波长进行调控,电学相变特性更适合表征纳米VO₂薄膜的半导体-金属相变特性。     

斜波压缩下锡的相变动力学特性

利用磁驱动加载装置(CQ-4)和高精度速度测试装置(DPV),开展了斜波加载下锡的动态压缩实验。实验结果表明:锡在加载阶段经历了弹塑性转变和相变等物理过程,相变压力约为7.5 GPa。β–γ相变对应的特征速度随着锡厚度的增加,从676.3 m/s减小到636.8 m/s,对应的压力从7.62 GPa降低到7.11 GPa。结合Hayes多相状态方程和非平衡相变动力学模型,对锡的斜波压缩实验过程进行了模拟,数值计算结果可以较好地描述锡在加载阶段的弹塑性转变和相变等物理过程。讨论了体模量在不同热力学过程中的物理形式,计算结果显示,斜波压缩过程需考虑压力对体模量的修正。分析了相变弛豫时间、体模量等典型物理参数对速度波形的影响,结果表明,相变弛豫时间和各相初始自由能主要影响混合区部分速度波形,γ相的体模量参数只影响相变后的速度波形,β相的体模量参数会影响整体速度波形。     

The Effect of the Relative Velocity on Traffic Flow

The optimal velocity model of traffc is extended to take the relative velocity into account. The traffcbehavior is investigated numerically and analytically with this model. It is shown that the car interaction with therelative velocity can effect the stability of the traffic flow and raise critical density. The jamming transition between thefreely moving and jamming phases is investigated with the linear stability analysis and nonlinear perturbation methods.The traffic jam is described by the kink solution of the modified Korteweg-de Vries equation. The theoretical result isin good agreement with the simulation.     

FeMnNi合金冲击相变与卸载逆相变历程研究

采用VISAR测试技术,将正向加载和逆向加载实验相结合,研究了不同加载压力下FeMnNi合金的冲击相变和卸载逆相变历程.结果表明:冲击加载压力与冲击相变阈值之差小于逆相变阈值时,即0＜σp-σt＜σn,FeMnNi合金发生α→ε相变,加载段呈现弹性波、塑性波和相变波三波结构,塑性波在自由面反射稀疏波使FeMnNi合金完...     

The Effect of the Relative Velocity on Traffic Flow

The optimal velocity model of traffic is extended to take the relative velocity into account. The traffic behavior is investigated numerically and analytically with this model. It is shown that the car interaction with the relative velocity can effect the stability of the traffic flow and raise critical density. The jamming transition between the freely moving and jamming phases is investigated with the linear stability analysis and nonlinear perturbation methods. The traffic jam is described by the kink solution of the modified Korteweg--de Vries equation. The theoretical result is in good agreement with the simulation.     

A Stochastic Description of Transition Between Granular Flow States

Two-dimensional granular flow in a channel with small exit is studied by molecular dyhamics simulations. We firstly define a key area near the exit, which is considered to be the choke area of the system. Then we observe the time variation of the local packing fraction and flow rate in this area for several fixed inflow rate, and find that these quantities change abruptly when the transition from dilute flow state to dense flow state happens. A relationship between the local flow rate and the local packing fraction in the key area is also given. The relationship is a continuous function under the fixed particle number condition, and has the characteristic that the flow rate has a maximum at a moderate packing fraction and the packing fraction is terminated at a high value with negative slope. By use of the relationship, the properties of the flow states under the fixed inflow rate condition are discussed in detail, and the discontinuities and the complex time variation behavior observed＇in the preexisting works are naturally explained by a stochastic process.     

Hysteresis Phenomenon in Deterministic Traffic Flows

We study phase transitions of a system of particles on the one-dimensional integer lattice moving with constant acceleration, with a collision law respecting slower particles. This simple deterministic “particle-hopping” traffic flow model being a straightforward generalization to the well known Nagel–Schreckenberg model covers also a more recent slow-to-start model as a special case. The model has two distinct ergodic (unmixed) phases with two critical values. When traffic density is below the lowest critical value, the steady state of the model corresponds to the “free-flowing” (or “gaseous”) phase. When the density exceeds the second critical value the model produces large, persistent, well-defined traffic jams, which correspond to the “jammed” (or “liquid”) phase. Between the two critical values each of these phases may take place, which can be interpreted as an “overcooled gas” phase when a small perturbation can change drastically gas into liquid. Mathematical analysis is accomplished in part by the exact derivation of the life-time of individual traffic jams for a given configuration of particles. This research has been partially supported by Russian Foundation for Fundamental Research and French Ministry of Education grants.     

Phase transition in evolution of traffic flow with scale-free property

This paper investigates the behaviour of traffic flow in traffic systems with a new model based on the NaSch model and cluster approximation of mean-field theory. The proposed model aims at constructing a mapping relationship between the microcosmic behaviour and the macroscopic property of traffic flow. Results demonstrate that scale-free phenomenon of the evolution network becomes obvious when the density value of traffic flow reaches at the critical point of phase transition from free flow to traffic congestion, and jamming is limited in this scale-free structure.     

Impact of the Next-Nearest-Neighbor Interaction on Traffic Flow of Highway with Slopes

In this paper,we study the motion course of traffic flow on the slopes of a highway by applying a microscopic traffic model,which takes into account the next-nearest-neighbor interaction in an intelligent transportation system environment.Three common gradients of the highway,which are sag terrain,uphill terrain,and downhill terrain on a single-lane roadway,are selected to clarify the impact on the traffic flow by the next-nearest-neighbor interaction in relative velocity.We obtain the current-density relation for traffic flow on the sag,the uphill and the downhill under the next-nearest-neighbor interaction strategy.It is observed that the current saturates when the density is greater than a critical value and the current decreases when the density is greater than another critical value.When the density falls into the intermediate range between the two critical densities it is also found that the oscillatory jam,easily leads to traffic accidents,often appears in the downhill stage,and the next-nearest-neighbor interaction in relative velocity has a strong suppressing effect on this kind of dangerous congestion.A theoretical analysis is also presented to explain this important conclusion.     

利用慢度曲面研究立方晶系晶体的铁弹相变

讨论了慢度曲面与声学模软化之间的关系.立方晶系晶体声学模的软化即对应其在某一方向上的最大慢度,软模的本征矢的方向即为与最大慢度相对应的声学模的偏振化方向.通过求解Christoffel方程可找到某些方向上的最大慢度和与它们对应的声学模的偏振化方向.从而晶体在本征铁弹相变前后结构对称性的变化可以通过分析Christoffel方程的解及利用居里原理来确定.