Acoustic signals can prove to be efficient in monitoring the traffic state of the road, as various types of sounds can be acquired from the road like engine noise, honking etc. Smartphones have good microphones, which can acquire acoustic signals without much disruption.Since large numbers of people have smartphones, the traffic state detected using other smartphones can be transferred to them....

Intracellular transport along microtubules or actin filaments, powered by molecular motors such as kinesins, dyneins or myosins, has been recently modeled using one-dimensional driven lattice gases. We discuss some generalizations of these models, that include extended particles and defects. We investigate the feasibility of single molecule experiments aiming to measure the average motor densit...

Synthesis of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) is essential for fast cell growth and rRNA transcription is typically characterized by dense traffic of RNA polymerases along the rRNA genes. However, dense traffic is susceptible to traffic jams which may arise inevitably due to stochastic pausing of the polymerases. Based on recent theoretical and experimental results, we suggest that the "traffic viewpoint" ...

Confl ict of interest (COI) is an issue in all of scientifi c publishing, and handling cases of potential COI appropriately is one of journal editors’ constant concerns. 1 Understanding the importance of COI, the Japanese Association of Medical Societies (JAMS) directly addressed it at a symposium held in February 2014. We created a questionnaire to gather data on COI disclosure and management ...

We construct a two dimensional Cellular Automata based model for the description of pedestrian dynamics. Wide range of complicated pattern formation phenomena in pedestrian dynamics are described in the model, e.g. lane formation, jams in a counterflow and egress behavior. Mean-field solution of the densely populated case and numerical solution of the sparsely populated case are provided. This ...

Japanese companies in India are required to pay additional costs to avoid breakdown of machinery due to blackouts and voltage changes. The bad condition of roads inflicts damage on commodities during transportation. Transportation between Delhi and the South takes one week due to the lack of express highways. Economic losses are incurred because of the long transportation time and high gasoline...

Current situation in urban areas could be described by the cycle of urban decline. The choice of travelling by car produces more traffic jams, thus reducing the efficiency of public transport and the quality of live in urban districts by increasing pollution and accidents levels. Firms decide to move out to suburban areas where the provision of public transport is very low, and again people dec...

This paper presents the simulation of traffic flow on a congested street in the Jordanian capital Amman. The geometry, boundary conditions and assumptions were also compared against videos taken for actual traffic on the street. Although limited changes to the geometry is applicable in reality, some recommendations on speed limits and traffic signs were made to aid in reducing traffic jams. Key...

A nonlinear car-following model is studied with driver reaction time delay by using state-of-the-art numerical continuations techniques. These allow us to unveil the detailed microscopic dynamics as well as to extract macroscopic properties of traffic flow. Parameter domains are determined where the uniform flow equilibrium is stable but sufficiently large excitations may trigger traffic jams. ...