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Michael Schreckenberg

Michael Schreckenberg

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
64
Citations
23464
World Ranking
1598
National Ranking
44

Overview

Michael Schreckenberg is affiliated with the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering, with a focus on control and systems engineering, transportation, building and construction, economics and econometrics, and statistical and nonlinear physics.

Their research encompasses a range of topics including traffic control and management, traffic prediction and management techniques, transportation planning and optimization, complex systems and time series analysis, complex network analysis techniques, autonomous vehicle technology and safety, as well as mental health research topics.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Michael Schreckenberg include:

  • Adapting a cellular automata model to describe heterogeneous traffic with human-driven, automated, and communicating automated vehicles, 2021, Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
  • Modelling multi-lane heterogeneous traffic flow with human-driven, automated, and communicating automated vehicles, 2021, Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
  • Quasi-stationary states in temporal correlations for traffic systems: Cologne orbital motorway as an example, 2020, Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment
  • Spatial correlation analysis of traffic flow on parallel motorways in Germany, 2022, Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
  • Collective behavior in the North Rhine-Westphalia motorway network, 2021, Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment

Frequent co-authors with whom Schreckenberg has collaborated include:

  • Thomas Guhr
  • Shanshan Wang
  • Sebastian Gartzke
  • Sergey L. Klenov
  • Boris S. Kerner

Key venues where Michael Schreckenberg has published are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
  • Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment
  • Collective Dynamics
  • European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging

Best Publications

  • A cellular automaton model for freeway traffic

    Kai Nagel;Michael Schreckenberg

  • Pedestrian and evacuation dynamics

    Michael Schreckenberg;Som Deo Sharma

  • Metastable states in cellular automata for traffic flow

    R. Barlovic;L. Santen;A. Schadschneider;M. Schreckenberg

  • Discrete stochastic models for traffic flow

    M. Schreckenberg;M. Schreckenberg;A. Schadschneider;A. Schadschneider;K. Nagel;K. Nagel;N. Ito;N. Ito

  • Two lane traffic simulations using cellular automata

    M. Rickert;M. Rickert;K. Nagel;M. Schreckenberg;A. Latour

  • Traffic and Granular Flow

    D E Wolf;M Schreckenberg;A Bachem

  • Optimizing traffic lights in a cellular automaton model for city traffic.

    Elmar Brockfeld;Robert Barlovic;Andreas Schadschneider;Michael Schreckenberg

  • Particle hopping models for two-lane traffic with two kinds of vehicles: Effects of lane-changing rules

    Debashish Chowdhury;Dietrich E. Wolf;Michael Schreckenberg

  • Cellular automation models and traffic flow

    A Schadschneider;M Schreckenberg

  • Microscopic Simulation of Urban Traffic Based on Cellular Automata

    J. Esser;M. Schreckenberg

  • Single-vehicle data of highway traffic: a statistical analysis.

    L. Neubert;L. Santen;A. Schadschneider;M. Schreckenberg

  • Experimental study of pedestrian flow through a bottleneck

    Tobias Kretz;Anna Grünebohm;Michael Schreckenberg

  • Traffic and granular flow '99 : social, traffic, and granular dynamics

    Granular Flow;Dirk Helbing;Hans J. Herrmann

  • Granular and Traffic Flow ’99: Social, Traffic, and Granular Dynamics

    Dirk Helbing;Hans J. Herrmann;Michael Schreckenberg;Dietrich E. Wolf

  • Simulation of competitive egress behavior: comparison with aircraft evacuation data

    Ansgar Kirchner;Hubert Klüpfel;Katsuhiro Nishinari;Katsuhiro Nishinari;Andreas Schadschneider

  • Mechanical restriction versus human overreaction triggering congested traffic states.

    Hyun Keun Lee;Robert Barlovic;Michael Schreckenberg;Doochul Kim

  • Decision dynamics in a traffic scenario

    Joachim Wahle;Ana Lúcia C Bazzan;Franziska Klügl;Michael Schreckenberg

  • Experimental study of pedestrian counterflow in a corridor

    Tobias Kretz;Anna Grünebohm;Maike Kaufman;Florian Mazur

  • Discretization effects and the influence of walking speed in cellular automata models for pedestrian dynamics

    Ansgar Kirchner;Ansgar Kirchner;Hubert Klüpfel;Katsuhiro Nishinari;Katsuhiro Nishinari;Andreas Schadschneider

  • The impact of real-time information in a two-route scenario using agent-based simulation

    Joachim Wahle;Ana Lúcia C Bazzan;Franziska Klügl;Michael Schreckenberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Boris S. Kerner
Boris S. Kerner University of Duisburg-Essen
Christian Wietfeld
Christian Wietfeld TU Dortmund University
Reinhard Selten
Reinhard Selten University of Bonn
Kai Nagel
Kai Nagel Technical University of Berlin
Nikolaus Rajewsky
Nikolaus Rajewsky Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Katsuhiro Nishinari
Katsuhiro Nishinari University of Tokyo
Thomas Guhr
Thomas Guhr University of Duisburg-Essen
Ana L. C. Bazzan
Ana L. C. Bazzan Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Dirk Helbing
Dirk Helbing ETH Zurich

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