Papers and preprints
NOTE: Html translations, where available,
are automatically generated and for convenience only. Authorative
sources are the ps.gz and pdf files.
NOTE 2: The ``recent'' category was abandoned
because of too much administrative overhead. Papers in individual
categories have newest papers first.
Book-in-progress
K Nagel, Multi-agent transportation simulations,
draft-in-progress for a book, contains a fair amount of explicit
programming recommendations and examples, here.
Edited volumes
Regional Transportation Systems Part II, edited by K. Nagel and
P. Wagner, Networks and Spatial Economics 3(1), 2003, via this
link. If you do not have access, please complain to your
library. :--)
Regional Transportation Systems Part I, edited by K. Nagel and
P. Wagner, Networks and Spatial Economics 2(4), 2002, via this
link. If you do not have access, please complain to your
library. :--)
Social Science simulation outside traffic
K Nagel, M Shubik, M Strauss, The importance of
timescales: Simple models for economic markets, Physica A, in
press, here.
Martin Strauss, Dynamic market simulations, ETH
Diploma thesis 2001, here.
Kai Nagel, Martin Shubik, Maya Paczuski, Per Bak,
Spatial competition and price formation, 2000, here.
Kai Nagel, A simple model for labor market dynamics,
unpublished 1998, here.
Traffic papers with more than one focus (includes overview papers)
in press
Kai Nagel and Bryan Raney, Large scale multi-agent
simulations for transportation applications, here. An earlier version was presented at a
workshop on ``Behavioral Responses to ITS'', 1-3/Apr/03, Eindhoven NL.
2003
Dirk Helbing and Kai Nagel, Verkehrsdynamik und
urbane Systeme, Physik Journal 2 (2003) Nr 5, p 35--41, here.
Morton O'Kelly, Kai Nagel, Sean Doherty,
Microsimulation and the Activity Scheduling Process: Views from the
STELLA workshop, position paper written in response to STELLA
workshop in Newcastle 8-11/may/2003, here.
Kai Nagel, Bryan Raney, Transportation Planning II: Complex
systems applications for transportation planning, in: The Real and the
Virtual World of Planning, Festschrift in the honor of Willy A. Schmid's
60th birthday, edited by M. Koll-Schretzenmayr, M. Keiner, and G. Nussbaumer,
here.
Kai Nagel, Traffic networks, in: Handbook on
networks, edited by S. Bornholdt and H.G Schuster, here.
2002
Kai Nagel, Distributed intelligence in large scale traffic
simulations on parallel computers, presented at: Collective Cognition:
Mathematical Foundations of Distributed Intelligence, Santa Fe Institue,
January 2002, here.
B Raney, N Cetin, A Völlmy, and Kai Nagel, Large
scale multi-agent transportation simulations, presented at 42nd ERSA
(European Regional Science Association) Congress, Dortmund, 2002, here.
Bryan Raney, Andreas Voellmy, Nurhan Cetin, Milenko Vrtic, Kai Nagel,
Towards a Microscopic Traffic Simulation of All of Switzerland,
Proceedings of the International Conference of Computational Science ICCS'02,
Amsterdam, here.
Nurhan Cetin, Kai Nagel, Bryan Raney, Andreas Voellmy,
Large scale multi-agent transportation simulations, Proceedings of the
Computational Physics Conference 2001 Aachen, here.
2001
Kai Nagel, Multi-modal traffic in TRANSIMS, Proceedings
of PED'01 (Conference on Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics), here.
2000
Kai Nagel, Jorg Esser, and Marcus Rickert, Large-scale traffic
simulations for transportation planning, Long Review Paper, Annual Review
of Computational Physics VII, Edited by Dietrich Stauffer, World Scientific
Publishing Company, here
1998
Kai Nagel, Richard J Beckman, and Christopher L Barrett,
TRANSIMS for transportation planning, Short Overview Paper, Proceedings
of the ``International Conference on Complex Systems, Nashua, NH, 1998'',
here.
1997
M Rickert, Traffic simulation on distributed memory computers,
Ph.D. thesis University of Cologne 1997, here.
R J Beckman et al, TRANSIMS-Release 1.0: The Dallas-Fort
Worth Case Study, Los Alamos Unclassified Report, here.
1995
Kai Nagel, High-speed microsimulations of traffic flow,
Ph.D. thesis University of Cologne, 1995, version
without some large figures, complete version
Computing aspects of traffic simulations (incl. visualization)
2004
Ch. Zwicker
, Parallel Within-Day Replanning in Traffic
Simulation, ETH Diploma Thesis 2004, here.
2003
Kai Nagel and Fabrice
Marchal, Computational methods for multi-agent simulations of
travel behavior, presented at the 10th International Conference on
Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR) in Lucerne, Switzerland
(10--14. August, 2003), here.
Mathias Walker, Realistic real-time visualization of
large-scale network-oriented multi-agent simulations, ETH Diploma
thesis 2003, here.
Nurhan Cetin, Adrian Burri, and Kai Nagel, A
large-scale multi-agent traffic microsimulation based on queue
model, presented at STRC'03, here. Earlier version (unter title ``Parallel
queue model approach to traffic microsimulations''; with slower
computational speed results) presented at TRB'03. Even earlier version
presented at STRC'02 (unter title ``Parallel queue model approach to
traffic microsimulations'').
2002
Bryan Raney and Kai Nagel, Iterative route planning for
modular transportation simulation, presented at the Swiss Transportation
Research Conference 2002 (STRC'02), here.
2001
Christian Gloor, Modelling of autonomous agents in a realistic
road network, ETH Diploma thesis 2001, in german (in spite of English
title), here.
Pedro Gonnet, A trhead-based distributed traffic
micro-simulation, ETH term project report, here.
Kai Nagel and Marcus Rickert, Parallel implementation
of the TRANSIMS micro-simulation, Parallel Computing, here.
M Rickert and K Nagel, Dynamic traffic
assignment on parallel computers in TRANSIMS, Future generation
computer systems Vol 17 No 5 pp 637--648, 2001, here.
1999
K Nagel et al, Regional transportation simulations,
Proceedings of the High Performing Computing Conference 1998 in Boston
MA, here.
Real world results
B Raney, N Cetin, A
Völlmy, M Vrtic, K Axhausen, and K Nagel, An Agent-Based
Microsimulation Model of Swiss Travel: First Results, Networks and
Spatial Economics, 3 (2003) 23--41, here. If
you cannot get it from there, please complain to your library :--),
and try here. A similar paper, with a much reduced
Sec. 5, was presented at TRB'03.
Feedback and learning
in press
B. Raney and K. Nagel, An improved framework for
large-scale multi-agent simulations of travel behavior, here. Earlier version presented at the
10th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR) in
Lucerne, Switzerland (10--14. August, 2003), under the title
``Agent-Based Activities Planning for an Iterative Traffic Simulation
of Switzerland'', with authors B. Raney, M. Balmer, K. Axhausen, and
K. Nagel.
B Raney and K Nagel, Truly agent-based strategy
selection for transportation simulations, here.
Presented at TRB'03.
2003
Daniel Kistler Mental maps for mobility simulations
of agents (In German), ETH Diploma Thesis 2003, here.
2002
Bryan Raney and Kai Nagel, Iterative route planning for
modular transportation simulation, presented at the Swiss
Transportation Research Conference 2002 (STRC'02), here.
2001
Jorg Esser, Kai Nagel, Iterative census-based travel
demand generation for transportation simulations, contains
comparisons to field data, here.
1999
Jorg Esser, Kai Nagel, Census-based travel demand
generation for transportation simulations, in: Proceedings of the
workshop ``Traffic and Mobility, Aachen/Germany, Sep/Oct 1998'', here.
Peter Wagner and Kai Nagel, Microscopic Modelling of
Travel Demand: The Home-to-Work Problem, TRB preprint, here.
1999
K Nagel, M Rickert, PM Simon, M Pieck, The dynamics of
iterated transportation simulations, presented at TRISTAN-3, here.
Marcus Rickert and Kai Nagel, Issues of
simulation-based route assignment, presented at ISTTT'99, here.
K Nagel, M Pieck, P M Simon, M Rickert Comparison
between three different micro-simulations and reality in Dallas,
here.
1998
Terence P Kelly and Kai Nagel, Relaxation criteria for
iterated traffic simulations, International Journal of Modern
Physics C, here. Copyright (1998) World
Scientific.
1997
K Nagel, Experiences with iterated traffic
microsimulations in Dallas, Overview Paper, in: Traffic and
Granular Flow '97, here.
M Rickert, K Nagel, Experiences with a simplified
microsimulation for the Dallas/Fort-Worth area, International
Journal of Modern Physics C,
here. Copyright (1997) World Scientific.
K Nagel, C L Barrett, Using microsimulation feedback
for trip adaptation for realistic traffic in Dallas, International
Journal of Modern Physics C, here. Copyright
(1997) World Scientific.
1996
K Nagel, Individual adaptation in a path-based
simulation of the freeway network of Northrhine-Westfalia,
International Journal of Modern Physics C, here. Copyright (1996) World Scientific.
1994
K Nagel and S Rasmussen, Traffic at the edge of
chaos, Artificial Life IV, edited by R.A. Brooks and P. Maes, MIT
Press Cambridge MA, 1994, pp 222-235, here.
Activity generation
2004
Marcel Rieser
, Generating Day Plans From Origin-Destination
Matrices, ETH Semester Thesis 2004, here.
David Charypar, Philip Graf and Kai Nagel, Q-learning for
flexible learning of daily activity plans, to be presented at the
4th Swiss Transport Research Conference (STRC04) in
Monte Verità / Ascona, Switzerland March 25-26, 2004, here.
2003
Adrian Schneider, Genetische
Algorithmen zur Optimierung von Tagesplänen für Verkehrsteilnehmer,
Term project, Computer Science, ETH Zürich, 2003, here.
David Charypar and Kai
Nagel, Generating Complete All-Day Activity Plans with Genetic
Algorithms, presented at the 10th International Conference on
Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR) in Lucerne, Switzerland
(10--14. August, 2003), here.
Route generation
1999
Riko Jacob, Madhav V Marathe, and Kai Nagel A computational
study of routing algorithms for realistic transportation networks, ACM
Journal of Experimental Algorithms Vol 4 (1999) No 6, here.
Pedestrian simulations
2004
Christian Gloor, Pascal Stucki and Kai Nagel,
Hybrid techniques for pedestrian simulations, presented at the
4th Swiss Transport Research Conference (STRC04) in
Monte Verità / Ascona, Switzerland March 25-26, 2004, here.
2003
C. Gloor et al., A pedestrian simulation for very large scale
applications, A Koch und P Mandl (Hrsg.)(2003): Multi-Agenten-Systeme
in der Geographie. Klagenfurt. (Klagenfurter Geographische Schriften, Heft
23), here, more information are available as well.
Christian Gloor,
Laurent Mauron, and Kai Nagel, A pedestrian simulation for
hiking in the alps, presented at the Swiss Transportation Research
Conference 2003 (STRC'03), here.
Traffic microsimulation, traffic flow theory
in press
D Jost and K Nagel,
Probabilistic Traffic Flow Breakdown In Stochastic Car Following
Models, (to be) published in ``Traffic and granular flow (TGF)
'03'', here. This paper is similar to the
version published in Transportation Research Records (see further
down), except for an attempt to explain some things better, and a
section on how slow-to-start CA fit into the picture.
2003
K Nagel, P Wagner, R Woesler, Still flowing: Approaches
to traffic flow and traffic jam modeling, Operations Research, here.
If you cannot get it from there, please complain to your library :--).
2002
D Jost and K Nagel, Probabilistic Traffic Flow Breakdown
In Stochastic Car Following Models, (to be) published in ``Traffic and
granular flow (TGF) '03'', here. This paper is
similar to the version published in Transportation Research Records (see
next), except for an attempt to explain some things better, and a section
on how slow-to-start CA fit into the picture.
D Jost and K Nagel, Probabilistic Traffic Flow Breakdown
In Stochastic Car Following Models, published in Transportation Research
Records, here. Earlier version presented at TRB'03.
D Jost, Breakdown and recovery in traffic flow models,
Master's thesis Computer Science ETH Zürich, here.
2001
Kai Nagel, Christopher Kayatz, and Peter Wagner, Breakdown
and recovery in traffic flow models, Traffic and Granular Flow '01,
here.
Christopher Kayatz, Stability analysis of traffic flow
models, ETH Diploma thesis, here.
1999
Stephan Krauss, Kai Nagel, and Peter Wagner, The mechanism
of flow breakdown in traffic flow models, presented at ISTTT'99, here.
K Nagel, P Stretz, M Pieck, S Leckey, R Donnelly, C L Barrett,
TRANSIMS traffic flow characteristics, Los Alamos Unclassified Report,
here.
Patrice M Simon and Kai Nagel, Simple queueing model applied
to the city of Portland, International Journal of Modern Physics, here.
1998
P M Simon, K Nagel, Simplified cellular automaton model for
city traffic, Physical Review E, here. Copyright
(1998) The American Physical Society.
Kai Nagel, Dietrich E Wolf, Peter Wagner, and Patrice Simon,
Two-lane traffic rules for cellular automata: A systematic approach,
Physical Review E, here. Copyright (1998)
The American Physical Society.
1997
P Wagner, K Nagel, D E Wolf, Realistic multi-lane traffic
rules for cellular automata, Physica A, here.
Copyright (1997) Elsevier.
1996
K Nagel, Particle hopping models and traffic flow theory,
Physical Review E, here. Copyright (1996) The American
Physical Society.
M Rickert, K Nagel, M Schreckenberg, A Latour, Two lane
traffic simulations using cellular automata, Physica A, here. Copyright (1996) Elsevier.
1995
M Schreckenberg, A Schadschneider, K Nagel, N Ito, Discrete
stochastic models for traffic flow, Physical Review E, here. Copyright (1995) The American Physical Society.
K Nagel, M Paczuski, Emergent traffic jams, Physical
Review E, here. Copyright (1995) The American Physical
Society.
1994
K Nagel, Life times of simulated traffic jams,
International Journal of Modern Physics C,
here. Copyright (1994) World
Scientific Publishing Company
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