Traffic and Granular Flow '99

Foreword.- Preface.- List of Participants.- Social Dynamics.- Recurrence in Physical and Social Systems.- Econophysics: What Can Physicists Contribute to Economics?.- Catastrophe Effects and Optimal Extensions of Transportation Flows in the Developing Urban System: A Review.- Evolutionary Models of Innovation Dynamics.- Universality of Group Decision Making.- Formation of Opinions under the Influence of Competing Agents -a Mean Field Approach.- Search for Intelligence by Motion Analysis ;-).- Anticipatory Traffic Forecast Using Multi-Agent Techniques.- Modal Split and Social Dilemmas.- Synthetising Brillouin Information-Thermodynamic Approach with the Social Synergetics Weidlich-Haag Model.- Biology, Internet, Transport Theory.- Evolution of Molecular Phenotypes - A Physicist's View of Darwin's Principle.- Stochastic Resonance and Brownian Machinery: New Results -New Applications - New Goals.- Studies of Bacterial Cooperative Organization.- Collective Motion and Optimal Self-Organisation in Self-Driven Systems.- Active Brownian Particles with Internal Energy Depot.- Associative Memory of a Pulse-Coupled Noisy Neural Network with Delays: The Lighthouse Model.- Application of Neural Networks for Predictive and Control Purposes.- Optimizing Traffic in Virtual and Real Space.- Is Boltzmann's Equation Physically Insufficient?.- Fractional Evolution Equations and Irreversibility.- Dynamical Theory of Steady State Selection in Open Driven Diffusive Systems.- Application of a Deterministic Scheme for the Boltzmann Equation in Modelling Shock Wave Focusing.- Nonlinear Waves and Moving Clusters on Rings.- Freezing by Heating in a Pedestrian Model.- Traffic Data and Applications.- Phase Transitions in Traffic Flow.- An Integrated Model of Transport and Urban Evolution (ITEM)-Traffic and City Development in Emergent Nations.- Statistical Analysis of Freeway Traffic.- Nonlinear Control of Stop-and-Go Traffic.- Online Simulation and State Estimation for a Traffic Flow Model.- Traffic News by Dynamic Fuzzy Classification.- Evaluation of Single Vehicle Data in Dependence of the Vehicle-Type, Lane, and Site.- Forecasting of Traffic Congestion.- Empirical Phase Diagram of Traffic Flow on Highways with On-Ramp.- On-Line Simulation of the Freeway Network of North Rhine-Westphalia.- Traffic Data Collection Using Image Processing Technology.- Modelling of Traffic Flow.- Microscopic Simulation of Congested Traffic.- Order Parameter as an Additional State Variable of Unstable Traffic Flow.- Macroscopic Simulation of Open Systems and Micro-Macro Link.- Relating Car-Following and Continuum Models of Road Traffic.- Microscopic Randomness in Foliow-the-Leader Dynamics.- "Car-SPH": A Lagrangian Particle Scheme for the Solution of the Macroscopic Traffic Flow Equations.- An Exactly Solvable Two-Way Traffic Model with Ordered Sequential Update.- Exact Traveling Cluster Solutions of Differential Equations with Delay for a Traffic Flow Model.- Stable and Metastable States in Congested Traffic.- Detailed Microscopic Rules to Simulate Multilane Freeway Traffic.- CA Models for Traffic Flow: Comparison with Empirical Single-Vehicle Data.- A New Cellular Automata Model for City Traffic.- Stochastic Boundary Conditions in the Nagel-Schreckenberg Traffic Model.- A Stochastic Multi-Cluster Model of Freeway Traffic.- Granular Dynamics.- Jamming Patterns and Blockade Statistics in Model Granular Flows.- Kinetics of Granular Gases.- Particle Segregation in the Context of the Species Momentum Balances.- Avalanche Parameters: Dependence on the Size of the GranularPacking.- Ripple Formation in a Saltation-Avalanche Model.- Particle Diffusion and Segregation in Rotating Cylinders.- Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Cohesive Granular Materials.- A Model for Slowly Moving Granular Matter.- Pressure Distribution of a Two-Dimensional Sandpile.