The Network of Commuters in London
Physics and Society
2009-11-13 v1 Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Abstract
We study the directed and weighted network in which the wards of London are vertices and two vertices are connected whenever there is at least one person commuting to work from a ward to another. Remarkably the in-strength and in-degree distribution tail is a power law with exponent around -2, while the out-strength and out-degree distribution tail is exponential. We propose a simple square lattice model to explain the observed empirical behaviour.
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@article{arxiv.0712.1960,
title = {The Network of Commuters in London},
author = {A. P. Masucci and G. J. Rodgers},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.1960},
year = {2009}
}