Physicist's approach to public transportation networks: between data processing and statistical physics
Abstract
In this paper we aim to demonstrate how physical perspective enriches usual statistical analysis when dealing with a complex system of many interacting agents of non-physical origin. To this end, we discuss analysis of urban public transportation networks viewed as complex systems. In such studies, a multi-disciplinary approach is applied by integrating methods in both data processing and statistical physics to investigate the correlation between public transportation network topological features and their operational stability. The studies incorporate concepts of coarse graining and clusterization, universality and scaling, stability and percolation behavior, diffusion and fractal analysis.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1911.10858,
title = {Physicist's approach to public transportation networks: between data processing and statistical physics},
author = {Yaryna Korduba and Yurij Holovatch and Robin de Regt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.10858},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
18 pages, 9 figures, submitted to the Festschrift devoted to Prof.Dr. Jurij Kozicki on the occasion of his 70th birthday