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Publications (25)

math.AP2023

On the singular limit problem for nonlocal conservation laws: A general approximation result for kernels with fixed support

Alexander Keimer, Lukas Pflug

We prove the convergence of solutions of nonlocal conservation laws to their local entropic counterpart for a fundamentally extended class of nonlocal kernels when these kernels ap…

math.AP2023

Conservation laws with nonlocality in density and velocity and their applicability in traffic flow modelling

Jan Friedrich, Simone Göttlich, Alexander Keimer +1

In this work we present a nonlocal conservation law with a velocity depending on an integral term over a part of the space. The model class covers already existing models in litera…

eess.SY2022

Limitations and Improvements of the Intelligent Driver Model (IDM)

Saleh Albeaik, Alexandre Bayen, Maria Teresa Chiri +7

This contribution analyzes the widely used and well-known "intelligent driver model (briefly IDM), which is a second order car-following model governed by a system of ordinary diff…

eess.SY2017

Integration of Information Patterns in the Modeling and Design of Mobility Management Services

Alexander Keimer, Nicolas Laurent-Brouty, Farhad Farokhi +4

Over the last decade, the rise of the mobile internet and the usage of mobile devices has enabled ubiquitous traffic information. With the increased adoption of specific smartphone…

math.AP2022

Conservation laws with nonlocal velocity -- the singular limit problem

Jan Friedrich, Simone Göttlich, Alexander Keimer +1

We consider conservation laws with nonlocal velocity and show for nonlocal weights of exponential type that the unique solutions converge in a weak or strong sense (dependent on th…

math.CA2026

Analysis of the long-term behavior of the "Bando--follow-the-leader'' car-following model

Fei Cao, Xiaoqian Gong, Alexander Keimer

In this article, we investigate the long-term behavior of the ``Bando--follow-the-leader'' car-following model, whose well-posedness and stability with respect to delay were analyz…

math.OC2026

A general framework for nonlocal traffic flow models on networks

Alexander Keimer, Lukas Pflug, Florian Prohaska

We present a general computational framework for macroscopic nonlocal traffic flow models on networks with multiple commodities. The model combines scalar conservation laws on edge…

math.OC2025

Optimal Control Problems with Nonlocal Conservation Laws: Existence of Optimizers and Singular Limits in Approximations of Local Conservation Laws

Alexander Keimer, Lukas Pflug, Jakob Rodestock

This contribution considers optimal control problems subject to nonlocal conservation laws -- those in which the velocity depends nonlocally (i.e., via a convolution) on the soluti…

math.AP2021

Discontinuous nonlocal conservation laws and related discontinuous ODEs -- Existence, Uniqueness, Stability and Regularity

Alexander Keimer, Lukas Pflug

We study nonlocal conservation laws with a discontinuous flux function of regularity in the spatial variable and show existence and uniqueness of…

math.AP2023

A note on nonlocal approximations of sign-unrestricted solutions of conservation laws

Alexander Keimer, Lukas Pflug

We study the singular limit problem for nonlocal conservation laws in which the sign of the initial datum is unrestricted and the velocity of the conservation law depends on a nonl…

eess.SY2022

Composing MPC with LQR and Neural Network for Amortized Efficiency and Stable Control

Fangyu Wu, Guanhua Wang, Siyuan Zhuang +4

Model predictive control (MPC) is a powerful control method that handles dynamical systems with constraints. However, solving MPC iteratively in real time, i.e., implicit MPC, rema…

math.OC2025

Optimal Control of ODE Car-Following Models: Applications to Mixed-Autonomy Platoon Control via Coupled Autonomous Vehicles

Arwa Alanqary, Alexandre M. Bayen, Xiaoqian Gong +3

In this paper, we study the optimal control of a mixed-autonomy platoon driving on a single lane to smooth traffic flow. The platoon consists of autonomous vehicles, whose accelera…

math.AP2020

A general result on the approximation of local conservation laws by nonlocal conservation laws: The singular limit problem for exponential kernels

Giuseppe Maria Coclite, Jean-Michel Coron, Nicola De Nitti +2

We deal with the problem of approximating a scalar conservation law by a conservation law with nonlocal flux. As convolution kernel in the nonlocal flux, we consider an exponential…

math.AP2026

Existence and uniqueness of nonlocal nonlinear conservation laws via fixed-point methods

Xiaoqian Gong, Alexander Keimer, Lorenzo Liverani +1

We investigate the well-posedness of scalar conservation laws whose flux depends on the solution both pointwise and nonlocally through integral averages. Our analysis is based on a…

cs.DC2021

Quasi-Dynamic Traffic Assignment using High Performance Computing

Cy Chan, Anu Kuncheria, Bingyu Zhao +5

Traffic assignment methods are some of the key approaches used to model flow patterns that arise in transportation networks. Since static traffic assignment does not have a notion…

math.AP2026

The obstacle problem for scalar conservation laws with nonlocal dynamics

Paulo Amorim, Alexander Keimer, Lukas Pflug +1

In this article, we present a method to find a solution to a one-dimensional nonlocal conservation law that respects a space-dependent mapping, referred to as the obstacle. This is…

eess.SY2024

Traffic Control via Connected and Automated Vehicles: An Open-Road Field Experiment with 100 CAVs

Jonathan W. Lee, Han Wang, Kathy Jang +61

The CIRCLES project aims to reduce instabilities in traffic flow, which are naturally occurring phenomena due to human driving behavior. These "phantom jams" or "stop-and-go waves,…

math.AP2023

On the singular limit problem in nonlocal balance laws: Applications to nonlocal lane-changing traffic flow models

Felisia Angela Chiarello, Alexander Keimer

We present a convergence result from nonlocal to local behavior for a system of nonlocal balance laws. The velocity field of the underlying conservation laws is diagonal. In contra…

math.AP2024

The obstacle problem for linear scalar conservation laws with constant velocity

Paulo Amorim, Alexander Keimer, Lukas Pflug +1

In this contribution, we present a novel approach for solving the obstacle problem for (linear) conservation laws. Usually, given a conservation law with an initial datum, the solu…

math.AP2026

Nonlocal Approximation Principle for Entropy Solutions of Scalar Conservation Laws

Alexander Keimer, Lukas Pflug

We establish a general nonlocal approximation principle for the entropy solutions of scalar conservation laws on . More precisely, we show that the entropy solution to…

math.AP2023

Ole\uınik-type estimates for nonlocal conservation laws and applications to the nonlocal-to-local limit

Giuseppe Maria Coclite, Maria Colombo, Gianluca Crippa +5

We consider a class of nonlocal conservation laws with exponential kernel and prove that quantities involving the nonlocal term $W:=\mathbb{1}_{(-\infty,0]}(\cdot)\exp(\cdot) \ast…

math.AP2022

On the singular limit problem for a discontinuous nonlocal conservation law

Alexander Keimer, Lukas Pflug

In this contribution we study the singular limit problem of a nonlocal conservation law with a discontinuity in space. The specific choice of the nonlocal kernel involving the spat…

math.AP2026

Systems of nonlocal conservation laws: well-posedness and the singular limit for a nonlocal generalized Aw-Rascle-Zhang model

Debora Amadori, Felisia Angela Chiarello, Gianmarco Cipollone +2

In this paper, we study a system of nonlocal conservation laws motivated by traffic flow: a nonlocal version of the generalized Aw-Rascle-Zhang (GARZ) model. The nonlocality arises…

math.AP2025

Nonlocal conservation laws with p-norm, the singular limit problem and applications to traffic flow

Felisia Angela Chiarello, Alexander Keimer, Lukas Pflug

In this contribution, we study scalar nonlocal conservation laws with the -norm. Here, 'nonlocal' means that the velocity of the conservation law depends on an integral term in…

math.AP2022

A Proof of Kirchhoff's First Law for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws on Networks

Alexandre M. Bayen, Alexander Keimer, Nils Müller

Networks are essential models in many applications such as information technology, chemistry, power systems, transportation, neuroscience, and social sciences. In light of such bro…