The merging flow model without a bottleneck is presented to mimic the pedestrian channel flow with a meeting point. Two channel flows in front of the meeting point interact one another when the exit density is higher than the maximal-current density. The distinct phase transition occurs by...

Pedestrian counter flow is investigated by experiment and simulation. The experiment is performed for the channel with open boundaries. Two types of walkers, going to the right and to the left, are taken into account. The video recordings and measurements of individual arrival times are...

We investigate the dynamic behavior of shuttle buses when passengers switch to another bus B on route B from bus A on route A. By switching from bus A to bus B, the outflow of passengers from route A (inflow of passengers into route B) changes to the periodic inflow of a square wave. The...

We present the stochastic nonlinear-map model of vehicular traffic controlled by irregular signals. The signal’s interval, the split of signal, and the offset time changes irregularly from signal to signal on a roadway. We study the effect of irregularity on dynamical behavior of vehicular...

We study the unidirectional flow of mobile objects through obstacles on a square lattice. Two models are presented: one is the lattice gas model consisting of translational particles and the other is that of turning particles. Fundamental diagrams for the two models are presented. The traffic...

We study the vehicular traffic controlled by two kinds of signals which are positioned with a periodic configuration. We propose a microscopic model to explore the driving behavior in the traffic system with two kinds of signals. The control method of traffic flow by the combination of two kinds...

We study the maximal current (maximum traffic capacity) of vehicular traffic through a sequence of traffic lights on a highway, where all signals turn on and off synchronously. The dynamical model of vehicular traffic controlled by signals is expressed in terms of a nonlinear map, where the...

We study the dynamical behavior of vehicles moving with fluctuating speed through a sequence of traffic lights which are controlled by the synchronized strategy. The dynamics of fluctuating vehicular traffic controlled by traffic lights is described in terms of the stochastic nonlinear map. We...

We study the effect of continuous speedup on the dynamical behavior of a single shuttle bus. We present a nonlinear map model of a shuttle bus to take into account the continuous speedup. When the shuttle bus is delayed, the bus speeds up continuously to overcome the delay. If the shuttle bus...

We present a cellular automaton (CA) model for vehicular traffic controlled by traffic lights. The CA model is not described by a set of rules, but is given by a simple difference equation. The vehicular motion varies highly with both signals’ characteristics and vehicular density. The...