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Optimization of urban paths in pandemic era

  • a Luigi Rarità 
  • a Dipartimento di Scienze Aziendali - Management & Innovation Systems, University of Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132, 84084, Fisciano (SA), Italy,
  • a Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie, University of Sannio, Via De Sanctis, 82100, Benevento, Italy
Cite as
Rarità L. (2021). Optimization of urban paths in pandemic era. Proceedings of the 33rd European Modeling & Simulation Symposium (EMSS 2021), pp. 384-389. DOI: https://doi.org/10.46354/i3m.2021.emss.052

Abstract

This work focuses on a possible redistribution of car traffic, modelled via a fluid dynamic approach, within a part of the Caltanissetta city (Italy), when critical events, such as gathering phenomena, occur. Via a decentralized approach, a cost functional, that indicates the asymptotic average velocity of police cars, is maximized with respect to traffic parameters at nodes with two incoming and two outgoing roads. Then, the management of high traffic is studied by local optimal coefficients at each node of the network. The whole traffic phenomena are analyzed by simulations, which confirm the correctness of the optimization procedure. It is also proved that optimal parameters manage a fast transit of police cars on assigned paths on the network.

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