Special Session 187: New Trends in Crowd Dynamics and Traffic Flow

From Mean Field Games to a Hughes-Type Model: A Lagrange-Galerkin Approach
Ahmad Zorkot
University of Vienna
Austria
Co-Author(s):    Elisabetta Carlini and Francisco J. Silva
Abstract:
We present a numerical scheme for a Hughes-type model where agents optimize based only on the current population distribution $m(t)$. Unlike classical Mean Field Games where agents anticipate future crowd evolution, at each time step a new Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation is solved with the instantaneous density. Our method combines a semi-Lagrangian discretization for the value function with a Lagrange-Galerkin approximation for the continuity equation. We prove well-posedness and convergence of the scheme. We also introduce a hybrid system coupling both MFG and Hughes-type populations. Various numerical tests are presented for both models, showing distinct behavioral patterns in congestion and target accumulation.