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In shared space environments, urban space is shared among different types of road users, who frequently interact with each other to negotiate priority and coordinate their trajectories. Instead of traffic rules, interactions among them are…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Suhair Ahmed , Fatema T. Johora , Jörg P. Müller

Whether in search of better trade opportunities or escaping wars, humans have always been on the move. For almost a century, mathematical models of human mobility have been instrumental in the quantification of commuting patterns and…

Segregation has long been recognized as a driver of environmental inequalities, with disadvantaged groups often living in neighborhoods where heat-related risks are highest. Yet, it remains unclear how daily mobility patterns, embedded…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-27 Marc Duran-Sala , Mattia Mazzoli , Martin Hendrick , Gabriele Manoli

Segregation is widespread in all realms of human society. Several influential studies have argued that intolerance is not a prerequisite for a segregated society, and that segregation can arise even when people generally prefer diversity.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Milena Tsvetkova , Olof Nilsson , Camilla Öhman , Lovisa Sumpter , David Sumpter

Scramble intersections stand as compelling examples of complex systems, shedding light on the pressing challenge of urban mobility. In this paper, we introduce a model aimed at unraveling the statistical intricacies of pedestrian crossing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-04 Eduardo V. Stock , Roberto da Silva

Half of the world population resides in cities and urban segregation is becoming a global issue. One of the best known attempts to understand it is the Schelling model, which considers two types of agents that relocate whenever a transfer…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-11-09 Diego Ortega , Javier Rodríguez-Laguna , Elka Korutcheva

This study investigates the complex dynamic interactions between two typed populations coexisting within a shared space. We propose both theoretical and numerical study to analyze scenarios where one population (population $1$) must…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Mariam Al Khatib , Said Gounane , Noureddine Igbida , Ghadir Jradi

Segregation encodes information about society, such as social cohesion, mixing, and inequality. However, most past and current studies tackled socioeconomic (SE) segregation by analyzing static aggregated mobility networks, often without…

Urban systems are characterized by populations with heterogeneous characteristics, and whose spatial distribution is crucial to understand inequalities in life expectancy or education level. Traditional studies on spatial segregation…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-01-02 Aleix Bassolas , Sergio Gómez , Alex Arenas

The era of the automobile has seriously degraded the quality of urban life through costly travel and visible environmental effects. A new urban planning paradigm must be at the heart of our roadmap for the years to come. The one where,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-20 Yanyan Xu , Luis E. Olmos , Sofiane Abbar , Marta C. Gonzalez

For past several decades, research efforts in population modelling has proven its efficacy in understanding the basic information about residential and commercial areas, as well as for the purposes of planning, development and improvement…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Gautam S. Thakur , Kevin A. Sparks , Robert N. Stewart , Marie L. Urban , Budhendra L. Bhaduri

Understanding segregation is essential to develop planning tools for building more inclusive cities. Theoretically, segregation at the work place has been described as lower compared to residential segregation given the importance of skill…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Teodoro Dannemann , Boris Sotomayor-Gómez , Horacio Samaniego

In recent years, there has been increasing attention to the spatial dimensions of residential segregation, such as the spatial arrangement of segregated neighborhoods and the geographic scale or relative size of segregated areas. However,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-08-28 Elizabeth Roberto

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

Ground transportation infrastructure significantly impacts community connectivity, economic growth, and access to essential services such as jobs, education, and healthcare. However, in practice, these infrastructures do not provide…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-10-01 Zahra Halimi , Mohammad SafariTaherkhani , Qingbin Cui

This study leverages mobile phone data to analyze human mobility patterns in developing countries, especially in comparison to more industrialized countries. Developing regions, such as the Ivory Coast, are marked by a number of factors…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-01-23 Alexander Amini , Kevin Kung , Chaogui Kang , Stanislav Sobolevsky , Carlo Ratti

An urban planner might design the spatial layout of transportation amenities so as to improve accessibility for underserved communities -- a fairness objective. However, implementing such a design might trigger processes of neighborhood…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-02-12 J. Carlos Martínez Mori , Zhanzhan Zhao

Here we show that "exposure segregation" - the degree to which individuals of one group are exposed to individuals of another in day-to-day mobility - is dependent on the structure of cities, and the importance of downtowns in particular.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-08-09 Andrew Renninger , Mateo Neira , Elsa Arcaute

Immigrant residential segregation can profoundly shape access to opportunities, immigrant integration, and inter-group relations. Yet we lack systematic evidence on how segregation varies across Europe, and what structural factors are…

General Economics · Economics 2025-12-22 Tobias Rüttenauer , Kasimir Dederichs , David Kretschmer

The traditional approach to the quantitative study of segregation is to employ indices that are selected by ``desirable properties''. Here, we detail how information theory underpins entropy-based indices and demonstrate how desirable…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-12-15 Boris Barron , Yunus A. Kinkhabwala , Chriss Hess , Matthew Hall , Itai Cohen , Tomás A. Arias