Kai Nagel

Publication List Details

Period

1611 - 2008

Number

115

Co-Authors

A Framework for Integrating Visual Quality Modelling within an Agent-Based Hiking Simulation for the Swiss Alps (2008)

Duncan Cavens, Christian Gloor, Kai Nagel, Eckart Lange, Willy A. Schmid

Abstract: While the visual qualities of a landscape are often key factors in attracting and retaining tourist visitors, they have been overlooked in recent simulation approaches to recreation...

Numerical LAST-MILE Tsunami Early Warning and Evacuation Information System (“LAST-MILE – Evacuation”) (2008)

Birkmann, Jörn, Dech, Stefan, Gosebeg, Nils, Klüpfel, Hubert, Lämmel, Gregor, Moder, Florian, ...

The structure and aims of the joint research project "Numerical Last-Mile Tsunami Early Warning and Evacuation Information System (“Last-Mile – Evacuation)" is introduced in this paper. The...

Software Manager (2008)

Paul Waddell, Hana Ševčíková, David Socha, Eric Miller, Kai Nagel, Fachgebiet Verkehrssystemplanung

Abstract: Several research teams working on integrated land use, transportation and environmental modelling have begun an international collaboration to develop an Open Platform for Urban Simulation...

Virtual Worlds—Real Decisions: Model- and Visualization-based Tools for Landscape Planning in Switzerland (2008)

Ariane Walz, Christian Gloor, Peter Bebi, Andreas Fischlin, Eckart Lange, Kai Nagel, ...

Prominent construction projects in Switzerland, such as the Sawiris luxury resort in Andermatt planned by Orascom Hotels & Development, Cairo (Egypt), or the idea of a hotel and apartment tower at...

An Agent-Based Simulation Model of Swiss Travel: First Results (2008)

Bryan Raney, Kai Nagel

In a multi-agent transportation simulation, travelers are represented as individual “agents,” who make independent decisions about their actions. We are implementing such a simulation for all of...

Adaptation in Games with Many Co-Evolving Agents (2008)

Franziska Klügl, Kai Nagel, Inst For L, Sea Transport Systems, Tu Berlin, ...

Abstract. Despite the recent results on formalizing multiagent reinforcement learning using stochastic games, the exponential increase of the space of joint actions prevents the use of this formalism...

Multi-agent based simulation of individual traffic in Berlin (2008)

Arnd Vogel, Prof Dr, Kai Nagel

Multi-agent simulations of traffic are expected to become an important tool for transportation planning in the mid-term future. In this paper, we will give a brief introduction to this kind of...

Comparing traffic flow models with different number of ''phases'' (2008)

Wagner, Peter, Nagel, Kai

By comparing microscopic traffic flow models with a different number of phases in the context of a simple scenario, the similarities as well as the differences of the various traffic flow models can...

Emergency Preparedness in the case of a Tsunami - Evacuation Analysis and Traffic Optimization for the Indonesian city of Padang (2008)

Lämmel, Gregor, Rieser, Marco, Nagel, Kai, Taubenböck, Hannes, Strunz, Günter, Goseberg, Nils, ...

The “Last-Mile Evacuation” research project develops a numerical last mile tsunami early warning and evacuation information system on the basis of detailed earth observation data and techniques...

Wecarryoutanexperimentalanalysisofanumberofshortestpath(routing) (2008)

Riko Jacob, Madhav Marathe, Kai Nagel

California for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract W-7405-ENG-36. By acceptance of this article, the publisher recognizes that the U.S. Government retains a non-exclusive, royalty-free...

Spatial competition and price formation (2008)

Kai Nagel, Martin Shubik, Maya Paczuski, Per Bak

We look at price formation in a retail setting, that is, companies set prices, and consumers either accept prices or go someplace else. In contrast to most other models in this context, we use a...

Bayesian calibration of dynamic traffic simulations (2008)

Floetteroed, Gunnar, Bierlaire, Michel, Nagel, Kai

We present an operational framework for the calibration of demand models for dynamic traffic simulations. Our focus is on disaggregate simulators that represent every traveler individually. We...

Relaxation (2007)

Kai Nagel, Terence Kelly, Terence Kelly, Kai Nagel Y

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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited Using Microsimulation Feedback for Trip Adaptation for Realistic Traffic in Dallas (2007)

K. Nagel, C. L. Barrett, Kai Nagel, Christopher L Barrett

contract W-7405-ENG-36. By acceptance of this article, the publisher recognizes that the U.S. Government retains a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to publish or reproduce the published form of...

endorse this viewpoint of a publication or guarantee its technical correctness. PARTICLE HOPPING VS. FLUID-DYNAMICAL MODELS FOR TRAFFIC FLOW (2007)

K. Nagel, Kai Nagel

contract W-7405-ENG-36. By acceptance of this article, the publisher recognizes that the U.S. Government retains a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to publish or reproduce the published form of...

LOS ALAMOS (2007)

Christopher L. Barrett, Nat I Ona, L L Aboratory, Kai Nagel, Kai Nagel, Paula Stretz, ...

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c � World Scienti�c Publishing Company INDIVIDUAL ADAPTATION IN A PATH-BASED SIMULATION OF THE FREEWAY NETWORK OF NORTHRHINE WESTFALIA (2007)

Kai Nagel

Tra�c simulations are made more realistic by giving individual drivers intentions, i.e., an idea of where they want to go. One possible implementation of this idea is to give each driver an exact...

9 (2007)

Kai Nagel

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited A simple model for labor market dynamics (DRAFT, comments welcome)

and (2007)

Bryan Raney, Kai Nagel

Multi-agent transportation simulations represent travelers as individual "agents, " who make independent decisions about their actions. We are implementing such a simulation for all...

Router Time Simulator (2007)

Los Alamos, Kai Nagel, Kai Nagel

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1 (2007)

Bryan Raney, Andreas Voellmy, Nurhan Cetin, Milenko Vrtic, Kai Nagel

Abstract Multi-agent transportation simulations are rule-based. The fact that such simulations do not vectorize means that the recent move to distributed computing architectures results in an...

Dynamic Trac Assignment on Parallel Computers (2007)

Marcus Rickert, Kai Nagel

We describe part of the current framework of the TRANSIMS traf-

2001: Multi-modal traffic in TRANSIMS (2007)

Kai Nagel

Traffic simulations need to include other modes of transportation besides car. This paper explains how this can be implemented in a large scale micro-simulation package. The most important element is...

Maya Paczuski, c;3 Per Bak (2007)

Kai Nagel, Martin Shubik

We look at price formation in a retail setting, that is, companies set prices, and consumers either accept prices or go someplace else. In contrast to most other models in this context, we use a...

a (2007)

Kai Nagel, Marcus Rickert

Apart from typographical and layout changes, this version should:--) be identical to the printed version. This paper describes the parallel implementation of the TRANSIMS traffic micro-simulation....

Dominic Jost, Kai Nagel 1 Probabilistic Traffic Flow Breakdown In Stochastic Car Following Models (2007)

Dominic Jost, Dominic Jost, Kai Nagel, Kai Nagel

Abstract: There is discussion if traffic displays multiple phases (e.g. laminar, jammed, synchronized) or not. This paper presents computational evidence that a stochastic car following model, by...

Maya Paczuski, c;3 Per Bak (2007)

Kai Nagel, Martin Shubik

We look at price formation in a retail setting, that is, companies set prices, and consumers either accept prices or go someplace else. In contrast to most other models in this context, we use a...

The (2007)

Kai Nagel, Marcus Rickert, Patrice M. Simon

dynamics of iterated transportation simulations

LOS ALAMOS (2007)

Kai Nagel, Patrice M. Simon, Martin Pieck, Martin Pieck, Marcus Rickert, Marcus Rickert

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited Comparison between three different traffic micro-simulations and reality in Dallas (DRAFT, comments welcome)

Comparing traffic flow models with different number of ”phases” (2007)

Wagner, Peter, Nagel, Kai

Currently, there is an ongoing debate in the traffic flow community concerning the correct empirical and theoretical description of the observations reported in [2]. Mainly three candidates are...

Application of the VISEVA demand generation software to Berlin using publicly available behavioral data (2006)

Beuck, Ulrike, Nagel, Kai, Justen, Andreas

Mittels des in diesem Artikel beschriebenen EVA-Ansatzes lassen sich wegzweckspezifische und zeitvariante Quelle-Ziel-Matrizen auf der Basis allgemeiner Inputdaten zur Raumstruktur und zum...

I (2005)

Arnd Vogel, Michael Balmer, Arnd Vogel, Kai Nagel

In a traffic network, capacities of parts of the network restrict the amount of transport units which can be handled by this network. The capacity of a given traffic network element is not fixed but...

Probabilistic traffic flow breakdown in stochastic car following models (2003)

Dominic Jost, Kai Nagel

There is discussion if traffic displays multiple phases (e.g. laminar, jammed, synchronized) or not. This paper presents computational evidence that a stochastic car following model, by changing one...

An Agent-Based Microsimulation Model of Swiss Travel: First Results (2003)

Bryan Raney, Nurhan Cetin, Andreas Vollmy, Milenko Vrtic, Kay Axhausen, Kai Nagel

In a multi-agent transportation simulation, each traveler is represented individually. Such a simulation consists of at least the following modules: (i) Activity generation. (ii) Modal and route...

A Pedestrian Simulation for Hiking in the Alps (2003)

Christian Gloor, Christian Gloor, Laurent Mauron, Kai Nagel

One goal of the project "Planning with Virtual Alpine Landscapes and Autonomous Agents" is to build a multi-agent simulation model of tourists hiking in the Alps. Such a simulation...

A large-scale agent-based traffic microsimulation based on queue model (2003)

Nurhan Cetin, Nurhan Cetin, Adrian Burri, Kai Nagel

We use the so-called queue model introducted by Gawron as the base of the traffic dynamics in our micro-simulation. The queue model describes the links with a flow capacity that limits the number of...

Probabilistic Traffic Flow Breakdown In Stochastic Car Following Models (2002)

Jost, Dominic, Nagel, Kai

There is discussion if traffic displays multiple phases (e.g. laminar, jammed, synchronized) or not. This paper presents evidence that a stochastic car following model, by changing one of its...

Iterative route planning for modular transportation simulation (2002)

Bryan Raney, Kai Nagel

The TRANSIMS (TRansportation ANalysis and SIMulation System) project is a large scale transportation system project produced by Los Alamos National Laboratory for transportation planning. In...

Traffic Networks (2002)

Kai Nagel

Transportation systems are complex dynamical systems whose dynamics unfolds on networks as the spatial substrate. Early approaches to the problem have similarities to the computation of equilibrium...

Parallel Queue Model Approach to Traffic Microsimulations (2002)

Nurhan Cetin, Adrian Burri, Kai Nagel

In this paper, we explain a parallel implementation of a traffic micro-simulation model based on the queue model by Gawron. Within this model, links do not only have a flow capacity that limits the...

Towards a microscopic traffic simulation of all of Switzerland (2002)

Bryan Raney, Andreas Voellmy, Nurhan Cetin, Milenko Vrtic, Kai Nagel

Abstract Multi-agent transportation simulations are rule-based. The fact that such simulations do not vectorize means that the recent move to distributed computing architectures results in an...

Parallel Queue Model Approach to Traffic Microsimulations (2002)

Nurhan Cetin, Adrian Burri, Kai Nagel

In this paper, we explain a parallel implementation of a traffic micro-simulation model based on the queue model by Gawron. Within this model, links do not only have a flow capacity that limits the...

Breakdown and recovery in traffic flow models (2001)

Nagel, Kai, Kayatz, Christopher, Wagner, Peter

Most car-following models show a transition from laminar to ``congested'' flow and vice versa. Deterministic models often have a density range where a disturbance needs a sufficiently large critical...

Parallel implementation of the TRANSIMS micro-simulation (2001)

Nagel, Kai, Rickert, Marcus

This paper describes the parallel implementation of the TRANSIMS traffic micro-simulation. The parallelization method is domain decomposition, which means that each CPU of the parallel computer is...

Large-scale multi-agent transportation systems. Paper read at Computational Physics Conference, at Aachen (2001)

Nurhan Cetin, Kai Nagel, Andreas Voellmy

It is now possible to microsimulate the traffic of whole metropolitan areas with 10 million travelers or more, "micro " meaning that each traveler is resolved individually as a...

Spatial competition and price formation (2000)

Nagel, Kai, Shubik, Martin, Paczuski, Maya, Bak, Per

We look at price formation in a retail setting, that is, companies set prices, and consumers either accept prices or go someplace else. In contrast to most other models in this context, we use a...

The dynamics of iterated transportation simulations (2000)

Nagel, Kai, Rickert, Marcus, Simon, Patrice M., Pieck, Martin

Iterating between a router and a traffic micro-simulation is an increasibly accepted method for doing traffic assignment. This paper, after pointing out that the analytical theory of simulation-based...

Transmins for transportation planning (1999)

Kai Nagel, Richard L. Beckman, Christopher L. Barrett

to transportation in one consistent simulation framework. The key to the TRANSIMS design is a radically microscopic simulation of the travelers. In consequence, as the rst step, a synthetic...

A computational study of routing algorithms for realistic transportation networks (1999)

Madhav Marathe, Nat I Ona, L L Aboratory, Riko Jacob, Riko Jacob, Madhav V. Marathe, ...

publisher recognizes that the U.S. Government retains a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to publish or reproduce the published form of this contribution, or to allow others to do so, for U.S....

A computational study of routing algorithms for realistic transportation networks (1999)

Riko Jacob, Kai Nagel, Madhav V. Marathe, Madhav V. Marathe

the publisher recognizes that the U.S. Government retains a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to publish or reproduce the published form of this contribution, or to allow others to do so, for U.S....

A computational study of routing algorithms for realistic transportation networks (1999)

Nat I Ona, L L Aboratory, Riko Jacob, Riko Jacob, Madhav V. Marathe, Madhav V. Marathe, ...

Los Alamos National Laboratory, an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer, is operated by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract W-7405-ENG-36. By...

A computational study of routing algorithms for realistic transportation networks (1999)

Riko Jacob, Madhav Marathe, Kai Nagel, Madhav V. Marathe

California for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract W-7405-ENG-36. By acceptance of this article, the publisher recognizes that the U.S. Government retains a non-exclusive, royalty-free...

A Simplified Cellular Automaton Model for City Traffic (1998)

Simon, Patrice, Nagel, Kai

We systematically investigate the effect of blockage sites in a cellular automaton model for traffic flow. Different scheduling schemes for the blockage sites are considered. None of them returns a...

Regional transportation simulations (1998)

Christopher L, Nat I Ona, L L Aboratory, Kai Nagel, Kai Nagel, Marcus Rickert, ...

for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract W-7405-ENG-36. By acceptance of this article, the publisher recognizes that the U.S. Government retains a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to...

Regional transportation simulations (1998)

Christopher L, Kai Nagel, Kai Nagel, Marcus Rickert, Marcus Rickert, Roger Frye, ...

for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract W-7405-ENG-3. By acceptance of this article, the publisher recognizes that the U.S. Government retains a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to...

Regional transportation simulations (1998)

Christopher L, Nat I Ona, L L Aboratory, Kai Nagel, Kai Nagel, Marcus Rickert, ...

for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract W-7405-ENG-36. By acceptance of this article, the publisher recognizes that the U.S. Government retains a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to...

Relaxation Criteria For Iterated Traffic Simulations (1998)

Terence Kelly, Kai Nagel

This paper investigates several criteria to judge relaxation of the iterative process, emphasizing criteria related to traveler decision-making.

Relaxation Criteria for Iterated Traffic Simulations (1998)

Nat I Ona, L L Aboratory, Terence Kelly, Kai Nagel

Iterated transportation microsimulations adjust their travelers' route plans by iterating between the microsimulation and the route planner and adjusting the route choice of individuals based on...

The Dynamics of Iterated Transportation Simulations (1998)

Kai Nagel, Kai Nagel, Marcus Rickert, Marcus Rickert, Patrice M. Simon, Patrice M. Simon

this article, the publisher recognizes that the U.S. Government retains a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to publish or reproduce the published form of this contribution, or to allow others to do...

A Computational Study of Routing Algorithms for Realistic Transportation Networks (1998)

Riko Jacob, Madhav V. Marathe, Kai Nagel

We carry out an experimental analysis of a number of shortest path (routing) algorithms investigated in the context of the TRANSIMS (TRansportation ANalysis and SIMulation System) project. The main...

Two-lane traffic rules for cellular automata: A systematic approach (1997)

Nagel, Kai, Wolf, Dietrich E, Wagner, Peter, Simon, Patrice

Microscopic modeling of multi-lane traffic is usually done by applying heuristic lane changing rules, and often with unsatisfying results. Recently, a cellular automaton model for two-lane traffic...

Experiences with iterated traffic microsimulations in Dallas (1997)

Nagel, Kai

This paper reports experiences with iterated traffic microsimulations in the context of a Dallas study. ``Iterated microsimulations'' here means that the information generated by a microsimulation is...

TRANSIMS traffic flow characteristics (1997)

Nagel, Kai, Stretz, Paula, Pieck, Martin, Donnelly, Rick, Barrett, Christopher L.

Knowledge of fundamental traffic flow characteristics of traffic simulation models is an essential requirement when using these models for the planning, design, and operation of transportation...

Using microsimulation feedback for trip adaptation for realistic traffic in Dallas (1997)

Nagel, Kai, Barrett, Christopher L

This paper presents a day-to-day re-routing relaxation approach for traffic simulations. Starting from an initial planset for the routes, the route-based microsimulation is executed. The result of...

Experiences with a simplified microsimulation for the Dallas/Fort Worth area (1997)

Rickert, M., Nagel, Kai

We describe a simple framework for micro simulation of city traffic. A medium sized excerpt of Dallas was used to examine different levels of simulation fidelity of a cellular automaton method for...

Individual Adaption in a Path-Based Simulation of the Freeway Network of Northrhine-Westfalia (1997)

Nagel, Kai

Traffic simulations are made more realistic by giving individual drivers intentions, i.e. an idea of where they want to go. One possible implementation of this idea is to give each driver an exact...

Experiences with a simplified microsimulation for the Dallas/Fort Worth area (1997)

Marcus Rickert, Kai Nagel, K. Nagel

We describe a simple framework for microsimulation of city traffic. A medium sized excerpt of Dallas was used to examine different levels of simulation fidelity of a cellular automaton method for the...

Self-Organized Criticality and $1/f$ Noise in Traffic (1996)

Paczuski, Maya, Nagel, Kai

Phantom traffic jams may emerge ``out of nowhere'' from small fluctuations rather than being triggered by large, exceptional events. We show how phantom jams arise in a model of single lane highway...

Individual adaption in a path-based simulation of the freeway network of Northrhine-Westfalia (1996)

Kai Nagel

Traffic simulations are made more realistic by giving individual drivers intentions, i.e. an idea of where they want to go. One possible implementation of this idea is to give each driver an exact...

Realistic Multi-Lane Traffic Rules for Cellular Automata by (1996)

Peter Wagner, Peter Wagner, Kai Nagel, Kai Nagel, Dietrich E. Wolf, Dietrich E. Wolf, ...

A set of lane changing rules for cellular automata simulating multi-lane traffic is proposed. It reproduces qualitatively that the passing lane becomes more crowded than the one for slower cars if...

Realistic Multi-Lane Traffic Rules for Cellular Automata (1996)

Peter Wagner, Peter Wagner, Kai Nagel, Kai Nagel, Dietrich E. Wolf, Dietrich E. Wolf, ...

A set of lane changing rules for cellular automata simulating multi-lane traffic is proposed. It reproduces qualitatively that the passing lane becomes more crowded than the one for slower cars if...

Two Lane Traffic Simulations using Cellular Automata (1995)

Rickert, Marcus, Nagel, Kai, Schreckenberg, Michael, Latour, Andreas

We examine a simple two lane cellular automaton based upon the single lane CA introduced by Nagel and Schreckenberg. We point out important parameters defining the shape of the fundamental diagram....

Particle hopping models and traffic flow theory (1995)

Nagel, Kai

This paper shows how particle hopping models fit into the context of traffic flow theory. Connections between fluid-dynamical traffic flow models, which derive from the Navier-Stokes-equations, and...

Emergent Traffic Jams (1995)

Nagel, Kai, Paczuski, Maya

We study a single-lane traffic model that is based on human driving behavior. The outflow from a traffic jam self-organizes to a critical state of maximum throughput. Small perturbations of the...

Two Lane Traffic Simulations using Cellular Automata (1995)

Kai Nagel, M. Schreckenberg, A. Latour, Marcus Rickert, M. Rickert

We examine a simple two lane cellular automaton based upon the single lane CA introduced by Nagel and Schreckenberg. We point out important parameters defining the shape of the fundamental diagram....

Discrete Stochastic Models For Traffic Flow (1994)

Michael Schreckenberg, Andreas Schadschneider, Kai Nagel, Nobuyasu Ito, M. Schreckenberg, A. Schadschneider, ...

We investigate a probabilistic cellular automaton model which has been introduced recently. This model describes single-lane traffic flow on a ring and generalizes the asymmetric exclusion process...

Traffic At the Edge of Chaos (1994)

Kai Nagel, Kai Nagel, Steen Rasmussen, Steen Rasmussen

We use a very simple description of human driving behavior to simulate traffic. The regime of maximum vehicle flow in a closed system shows nearcritical behavior, and as a result a sharp decrease of...

Ultraschnelle Mikroskopische Verkehrssimulationen (1994)

Achim Bachem, Kai Nagel, Marcus Rickert

"Verkehrschaos" ist ein wohlbekannter Begriff der Umgangssprache, aber die wenigen Versuche, ihn auf eine wissenschaftliche Grundlage zu stellen, benutzen die Kontinuumsapproximation. Wir...

Traffic At the Edge of Chaos (1994)

Kai Nagel, Steen Rasmussen

We use a very simple description of human driving behavior to simulate traffic. The regime of maximum vehicle flow in a closed system shows nearcritical behavior, and as a result a sharp decrease of...

Deterministic Models for Traffic Jams (1993)

Nagel, Kai, Herrmann, Hans J.

We study several deterministic one-dimensional traffic models. For integer positions and velocities we find the typical high and low density phases separated by a simple transition. If positions and...

Deterministic Models for Traffic Jams (1993)

Kai Nagel, Kai Nagel, Hans J. Herrmann, Hans J. Herrmann

We study several deterministic one-dimensional traffic models. For integer positions and velocities we find the typical high and low density phases separated by a simple transition. If positions and...

Lattice Games with Strategic Takeover (1993)

Barry Feldman, Barry Feldman, Kai Nagel, Kai Nagel

Introduction This contribution explores a topic of interest in a surprising number of physical and social sciences, the iterated Prisoner's Dilemma game. We use this game to construct a simple...

Microscopic Traffic Modeling on Parallel High Performance Computers (1993)

Kai Nagel, K. Nagel, A. Schleicher, A. Schleicher

A simple, rule-based approach to traffic flow can yield astonishingly realistic results and is therefore a candidate for very fast large scale microscopic traffic simulations. In the present article,...

Fast Low Fidelity Microsimulation Of Vehicle Traffic On Supercomputers (1993)

Kai Nagel, Kai Nagel

A set of very simple rules for driving behavior used to simulate roadway traffic gives realistic results. Because of its simplicity, it is easy to implement the model on supercomputers (vectorizing...

A cellular automaton model for freeway traffic (1992)

Nagel, Kai, Schreckenberg, Michael

We introduce a stochastic discrete automaton model to freeway traffic. Monte-Carlo simulations of the model show a transition from laminar traffic flow to start-stop-waves with increasing vehicle...

A cellular automaton model for freeway traffic (1992)

Nagel, Kai, Schreckenberg, Michael

We introduce a stochastic discrete automaton model to freeway traffic. Monte-Carlo simulations of the model show a transition from laminar traffic flow to start-stop-waves with increasing vehicle...

A cellular automaton model for freeway traffic (1992)

Nagel, Kai, Schreckenberg, Michael

We introduce a stochastic discrete automaton model to freeway traffic. Monte-Carlo simulations of the model show a transition from laminar traffic flow to start-stop-waves with increasing vehicle...

Parallel implementation of the TRANSIMS micro-simulation (1611)

Kai Nagel, Marcus Rickert

This paper describes the parallel implementation of the TRANSIMS traffic micro-simulation. The parallelization method is domain decomposition, which means that each CPU of the parallel computer is...

Parallel implementation of the TRANSIMS micro-simulation (1611)

Kai Nagel, Marcus Rickert

Apart from typographical and layout changes, this version should:–) be identical to the printed version. This paper describes the parallel implementation of the TRANSIMS traffic micro-simulation....

Spatial Competition and Price Formation

Kai Nagel, Martin Shubik, Maya Paczuski, Per Bak

We look at price formation in a retail setting, that is, companies set prices, and consumers either accept prices or go someplace else. In contrast to most other models in this context, we use a...

The Dynamics of Iterated Transportation Simulations

Kai Nagel, Marcus Rickert, Patrice M. Simon, Martin Pieck

Iterating between a router and a traffic micro-simulation is an increasibly accepted method for doing traffic assignment. This paper, after pointing out that the analytical theory of simulation-based...

Individual Adaptation in a Path-Based Simulation of the Freeway Network of Northrhine-Westfalia

Kai Nagel

Traffic simulations are made more realistic by giving individual drivers intentions, i.e., an idea of where they want to go. One possible implementation of this idea is to give each driver an exact...

Large scale multi-agent transportation simulations

Raney, Bryan, Voellmy, Andreas, Cetin, Nurhan, Nagel, Kai

In a multi-agent transportation simulation, each traveler is represented individually. Such simulation consist of at least the following modules: - Activity generation. For each traveler in the...

Bayesian modeling and estimation of combined route and activity location choice

Gunnar Flötteröd, Kai Nagel

This article describes a behavioral model of combined route and activity location choice. The model can be simulated by a combination of a time variant best path algorithm and dynamic programming,...

Simulation and Optimization of Trajectories in a Congested Network

Gunnar Flötteröd, Kai Nagel

The subject of this article is twofold. Firstly it describes how a dynamic macroscopic network loading model can be used to simulate the movement of arbitrarily complex individual particles (agents)...

PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF A MULTIAGENT TRAFFIC SIMULATION FOR BERLIN

ULRIKE BEUCK, KAI NAGEL, MARCEL RIESER, DAVID STRIPPGEN, MICHAEL BALMER

This paper provides an introduction to multiagent traffic simulation. It includes some description of where we are with respect to the implementation of a real-world Berlin scenario. It turns out...

Large Scale Traffic Simulations

Kai Nagel, Marcus Rickert, Christopher L. Barrett

Large scale microscopic (i.e., vehicle-based) traffic simulations pose high demands on computational speed in at least two application areas: (i) real-time traffic forecasting, and (ii) long-term...

Network Traffic as a Self-Organized Critical Phenomena

Kai Nagel, Steen Rasmussen, Christopher L. Barrett

This paper presents an overview of an approach to address complexity issues and real-life engineering problems in large, urban transportation systems. In this context we discuss the fundamental...

Particle Hopping Models and Traffic Flow Theory

Kai Nagel

This paper shows how particle hopping models fit into the context of traffic flow theory, that is, it shows connections between fluid-dynamical traffic flow models, which derive from the...

Traffic at the Edge of Chaos

Kai Nagel, Steen Rasmussen

We use a very simple description of human driving behavior to simulate traffic. The regime of maximum vehicle flow in a closed system shows near-critical behavior, and as a result a sharp decrease of...

Multi-Agent Transport Simulations and Economic Evaluation

Kai Nagel, Dominik Grether, Ulrike Beuck, Yu Chen, Marcel Rieser, Kay W. Axhausen

Tolls are frequently discussed policies to reduce traffic in cities. However, road pricing measures are seldom implemented due to high investments and unpopularity. Transportation planning tools can...