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Article Dans Une Revue EPL - Europhysics Letters Année : 2013

Diagonal patterns and chevron effect in intersecting traffic flows

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We study a lattice model of two perpendicular intersecting flows of pedestrians represented by hard-core particles of two types, eastbound ("${\cal E}$ ") and northbound ("${\cal N}$ "). Each flow takes place on a strip of width M so that the intersection is an M × M square lattice. In experiment and simulation there occurs on this square spontaneous formation of a diagonal pattern of alternating ${\cal E}$ and ${\cal N}$ particles. We show that this pattern formation may be understood in terms of a linear instability of the corresponding mean-field equations. A refined investigation reveals that the pattern actually consists of chevrons rather than straight diagonals. We explain this effect as the consequence of the existence of a nonlinear mode sustained by the interaction between the two types of particles.

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hal-00737983 , version 1 (03-10-2012)

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Julien Cividini, Cécile Appert-Rolland, Hendrik-Jan Hilhorst. Diagonal patterns and chevron effect in intersecting traffic flows. EPL - Europhysics Letters, 2013, 102 (2), pp.20002. ⟨10.1209/0295-5075/102/20002⟩. ⟨hal-00737983⟩
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