Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Econophysics Conference 2016 — Big Data Analysis and Modeling toward Super Smart Society — (APEC-SSS2016)

Abstract

Transport systems in physical space exhibit various phenomena which may have some counterparts in socio-or econo-systems. We review here several of them. In highway vehicular traffic, the introduction of a reaction time leads to metastability and hysteresis. Pattern formation occurs in pedestrian flows. At a microscopic scale, we can learn from molecular pedestrians that transporting an object by opposite teams can be more efficient in a crowded environment and allow for an easy control of the system. Besides, we will show that the interplay between transport and the dynamics of the underlying network can sometimes lead to positive effects in terms of efficiency of transport.