%0 Book Section %1 statphys23_0378 %A Schadschneider, A. %A John, A. %A Chowdhury, D. %A Nishinari, K. %B Abstract Book of the XXIII IUPAP International Conference on Statistical Physics %C Genova, Italy %D 2007 %E Pietronero, Luciano %E Loreto, Vittorio %E Zapperi, Stefano %K ant automata cellular flow statphys23 topic-11 traffic trails %T Empirical results for traffic flow on ant trails: Absence of jammed phase %U http://st23.statphys23.org/webservices/abstract/preview_pop.php?ID_PAPER=378 %X We report results of an empirical study of traffic flow on ant trails. In analogy to vehicular traffic 'single-vehicle data' like individual velocities, time-headways etc. have been measured for uni-directional and bi-directional trails. Apart from velocity and headway distributions also fundamental diagrams are calculated. In contrast to highway traffic no jammed regime is observed and the average velocity is constant over a large density regime. We discuss our findings in terms of the spatio-temporal organisation of the ants on their trails and compare with theoretical predictions of a simple cellular automaton approach. More information can be found at www.thp.uni-koeln.de/ant-traffic

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