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The amount of data that is being gathered about cities is increasing in size and specificity. However, despite this wealth of information, we still have little understanding of what really drives the processes behind urbanisation. In this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-11-30 Rémi Louf

The topology of city street networks (SNs) is constrained by spatial embedding, requiring non-crossing links and preventing random node placement or overlap. Here, we analyzed SNs of $33$ Indian cities to explore how the spatial embedding…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-26 Ritish Khetarpal , Aradhana Singh

This study estimates the relationships between street network characteristics and transport-sector CO2 emissions across every urban area in the world and investigates whether they are the same across development levels and urban design…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-01-04 Geoff Boeing , Clemens Pilgram , Yougeng Lu

Urban development is shaped by historical, geographical, and economic factors, presenting challenges for planners in understanding urban form. This study models commute flows across multiple U.S. cities, uncovering consistent patterns in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-11-11 Margarita Mishina , Mingyi He , Venu Garikapati , Stanislav Sobolevsky

Street networks, as one of the oldest infrastructures of transport in the world, play a significant role in modernization, sustainable development, and human daily activities in both ancient and modern times. Although street networks have…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-04-01 Bin Jiang , Atsuyuki Okabe

Urban systems are composed by complex couplings of several components, and more particularly between the built environment and transportation networks. Their interaction is involved in the emergence of the urban form. We propose in this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-12-03 Juste Raimbault

This chapter introduces OpenStreetMap - a crowd-sourced, worldwide mapping project and geospatial data repository - to illustrate its usefulness in quickly and easily analyzing and visualizing planning and design outcomes in the built…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-08-28 Geoff Boeing

This work presents a new method to quantify connectivity in transportation networks. Inspired by the field of topological data analysis, we propose a novel approach to explore the robustness of road network connectivity in the presence of…

When discussing urban life, pedestrian accessibility to all main services is crucial for fostering social interactions, promoting healthy lifestyles, and reducing pollution. This is especially relevant in coherent urban agglomerations like…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-10 Adamo Cerioli , Barbara Caselli , Lea Jeanne Marinelli , Alessandro Vezzani , Raffaella Burioni

Traffic is constrained by the information involved in locating the receiver and the physical distance between sender and receiver. We here focus on the former, and investigate traffic in the perspective of information handling. We re-plot…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Rosvall , A. Trusina , P. Minnhagen , K. Sneppen

Many complex networks demonstrate a phenomenon of striking degree correlations, i.e., a node tends to link to other nodes with similar (or dissimilar) degrees. From the perspective of degree correlations, this paper attempts to characterize…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-10-21 Bin Jiang , Yingying Duan , Feng Lu , Tinghong Yang , Jing Zhao

Road network data provides rich information about cities, but processing worldwide OpenStreetMap (OSM) data is computationally intensive, and the resulting graphs are often difficult to unify for benchmarking downstream tasks. Existing…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Guanjie Zheng , Ziyang Su , Yiheng Wang , Yuhang Luo , Hongwei Zhang , Xuanhe Zhou , Linghe Kong , Fan Wu , Wen Ling

The current science of cities can provide a useful foundation for future urban policies, provided that these proposals have been validated by correct observations of the diversity of situations in the world. However, international…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-05-21 Juste Raimbault , Eric Denis , Denise Pumain

Accurate understanding and forecasting of traffic is a key contemporary problem for policymakers. Road networks are increasingly congested, yet traffic data is often expensive to obtain, making informed policy-making harder. This paper…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Chico Q. Camargo , Jonathan Bright , Graham McNeill , Sridhar Raman , Scott A. Hale

The urban networks of London and New York City are investigated as directed graphs within the paradigm of graph percolation. It has been recently observed that urban networks show a critical percolation transition when a fraction of edges…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-10-20 Marco Cogoni , Giovanni Busonera

There is a prevailing trend to study urban morphology quantitatively thanks to the growing accessibility to various forms of spatial big data, increasing computing power, and use cases benefiting from such information. The methods developed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Wangyang Chen , Abraham Noah Wu , Filip Biljecki

Street networks allow people and goods to move through cities, but they are vulnerable to disasters like floods, earthquakes, and terrorist attacks. Well-planned network design can make a city more resilient and robust to such disruptions,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-03-19 Geoff Boeing , Jaehyun Ha

Stability of Wardrop equilibria is analyzed for dynamical transportation networks in which the drivers' route choices are influenced by information at multiple temporal and spatial scales. The considered model involves a continuum of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Giacomo Como , Ketan Savla , Daron Acemoglu , Munther A. Dahleh , Emilio Frazzoli

Traffic congestion at urban-scale levels occurs when road network supply is insufficient compared with demand. Therefore, the relationship between supply and demand has been extensively investigated in the literature. Especially the impact…

Applications · Statistics 2023-10-26 Kota Nagasaki , Toru Seo

Since the industrial revolution, accelerated urban growth has overflown administrative divisions, merged cities into large built extensions, and blurred the boundaries between urban and rural land-uses. These traits, present in most of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Francisco J. Humeres , Horacio Samaniego