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Cycling is a green transportation mode, and is promoted by many governments to mitigate traffic congestion. However, studies concerning the traffic dynamics of bicycle flow are very limited. This study experimentally investigated bicycle…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-04-15 Ning Guo , Rui Jiang , SC Wong , Qing-Yi Hao , Shu-Qi Xue , Mao-Bin Hu

In bicycle share networks, the balance between demand and supply is disrupted. As a result, shared resources are wasted and management costs for operators increase. Therefore, in this paper, we analyze the cycle relocation problem from the…

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Quantifying the topological similarities of different parts of urban road networks (URNs) enables us to understand the urban growth patterns. While conventional statistics provide useful information about characteristics of either a single…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-12-01 Jiawei Xue , Nan Jiang , Senwei Liang , Qiyuan Pang , Takahiro Yabe , Satish V. Ukkusuri , Jianzhu Ma

Global infrastructure robustness and local transport efficiency are critical requirements for transportation networks. However, since passengers often travel greedily to maximize their own benefit and trigger traffic jams, overall…

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The structure of road networks impacts various urban dynamics, from traffic congestion to environmental sustainability and access to essential services. Recent studies reveal that most roads are underutilized, faster alternative routes are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-06 Giuliano Cornacchia , Luca Pappalardo , Mirco Nanni , Dino Pedreschi , Marta C. González

Understanding the quantitative patterns behind scientific disciplines is fundamental for informed research policy. While many fields have been studied from this perspective, Urban Science (USc) and its subfields remain underexplored. As…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-01-17 Mariana Brüning-González , José Ignacio Arroyo , Pablo A. Marquet , Horacio Samaniego

As a rapidly expanding service, bike sharing is facing severe problems of bike over-supply and demand fluctuation in many Chinese cities. This study develops a large-scale method to determine the minimum fleet size under uncertainty, based…

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The behaviour of complex networks under failure or attack depends strongly on the specific scenario. Of special interest are scale-free networks, which are usually seen as robust under random failure but appear to be especially vulnerable…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-09-25 Bertrand Berche , Christian von Ferber , Taras Holovatch , Yurij Holovatch

The dynamics of transportation through towns and cities is strongly affected by the topology of the connections and routes. The current work describes an approach combining complex networks and self-avoiding random walk dynamics in order to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2008-02-26 Bruno Augusto Nassif Travençolo , Luciano da Fontoura Costa

Following the growth of dock-based bike sharing systems as an eco-friendly solution for transportation in urban areas, Dockless systems are revolutionizing the market for the increased flexibility they offer to users. Bike redistribution is…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Damian Barabonkov , Samantha D'Alonzo , Joseph Pierre , Daniel Kondor , Xiaohu Zhang , Mai Anh Tien

Urban economic vitality is a crucial indicator of a city's long-term growth potential, comprising key metrics such as the annual number of new companies and the population employed. However, modeling urban economic vitality remains…

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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…

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Assessing the resilience of a road network is instrumental to improve existing infrastructures and design new ones. Here we apply the optimal path crack model (OPC) to investigate the mobility of road networks and propose a new proxy for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-04 H. A. Carmona , A. W. T. de Noronha , A. A. Moreira , N. A. M. Araujo , J. S. Andrade

Transport is an important function in many network systems and understanding its behavior on biological, social, and technological networks is crucial for a wide range of applications. However, it is a property that is not well-understood…

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Cycling is a promising sustainable mode for commuting and leisure in cities, however, the fear of getting hit or fall reduces its wide expansion as a commuting mode. In this paper, we introduce a novel method called CyclingNet for detecting…

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Smart cities transform urban landscapes with interconnected nodes and sensors. The search for seamless communication in time-critical scenarios has become evident during this evolution. With the escalating complexity of urban environments,…

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Complex systems have been widely studied by social and natural scientists in terms of their dynamics and their structure. Scholars of cities and urban planning have incorporated complexity theories from qualitative and quantitative…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-08-03 Geoff Boeing

We study the influence that population density and the road network have on each others' growth and evolution. We use a simple model of formation and evolution of city roads which reproduces the most important empirical features of street…

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The recent discovery of universal principles underlying many complex networks occurring across a wide range of length scales in the biological world has spurred physicists in trying to understand such features using techniques from…

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