Traffic Flow on Ant Trails: Empirical Results vs. Theoretical Predictions

Alexander John (), Andreas Schadschneider (), Katsuhiro Nishinari () and Debashish Chowdhury ()
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Alexander John: Universität zu Köln, Institut für Theoretische Physik
Andreas Schadschneider: Universität zu Köln, Institut für Theoretische Physik
Katsuhiro Nishinari: University of Tokyo, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Faculty of Engineering
Debashish Chowdhury: Indian Institute of Technology, Department of Physics

A chapter in Traffic and Granular Flow ’07, 2009, pp 701-706 from Springer

Abstract: Summary We present empirical results for traffic flow on ant trails. The observed spatio-temporal organization of the ants as well as quantitative results for the fundamental diagram and headway distributions are compared with predictions of a cellular automaton model. In sharp contrast to highway traffic, no jammed phase is observed and the average velocity is almost independent of the density of ants.

Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77074-9_79

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