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Cities are typical dynamic complex systems that connect people and facilitate interactions. Revealing universal collective patterns behind spatio-temporal interactions between residents is crucial for various urban studies, of which we are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-06-11 Chenxin Liu , Yu Yang , Bingsheng Chen , Tianyu Cui , Fan Shang , Jingfang Fan , Ruiqi Li

A range of early studies have been conducted to illustrate human mobility patterns using different tracking data, such as dollar notes, cell phones and taxicabs. Here, we explore human mobility patterns based on massive tracking data of US…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-08-08 Bin Jiang , Tao Jia

The results of transportation infrastructure network analyses have been used to analyze complex networks in a topological context. However, most modeling approaches, including those based on complex network theory, do not fully account for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-04-20 Qi Xu , Baohua Mao , Yun Bai

Human mobility is subject to collective dynamics that are the outcome of numerous individual choices. Smart card data which originated as a means of facilitating automated fare collections has emerged as an invaluable source for analyzing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-08-11 Oded Cats

Understanding the relationship between urban form and structure and spatial variation of property flood risk has been a longstanding challenge in urban planning and city flood risk management. Yet limited data-driven insights exist…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-06-23 Junwei Ma , Ali Mostafavi

Commuting, like other types of human travel, is complex in nature, such as trip-chaining behavior involving making stops of multiple purposes between two anchors. According to the 2001 National Household Travel Survey, about one half of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-08-26 Yujie Hu , Xiaopeng Li

Urban morphology has a significant impact on sustainable urban outcomes in the ecological, social, and economic sectors. Nonetheless, academics lack clarity and consensus on how to quantify urban morphology indicators, which impedes…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-13 Mahshid Gorjian

We use complex network concepts to analyze statistical properties of urban public transport networks (PTN). To this end, we present a comprehensive survey of the statistical properties of PTNs based on the data of fourteen cities of so far…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-07-02 C. von Ferber , T. Holovatch , Yu. Holovatch , V. Palchykov

We study centrality in urban street patterns of different world cities represented as networks in geographical space. The results indicate that a spatial analysis based on a set of four centrality indices allows an extended visualization…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 Paolo Crucitti , Vito Latora , Sergio Porta

The availability of big data on human activity is currently changing the way we look at our surroundings. With the high penetration of mobile phones, nearly everyone is already carrying a high-precision sensor providing an opportunity to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-09-02 Dániel Kondor , Pierrick Thebault , Sebastian Grauwin , István Gódor , Simon Moritz , Stanislav Sobolevsky , Carlo Ratti

In the field of urban planning, road network system planning is often the first step and the main purpose of urban planning is to create a spatial configuration of different functions such as residence, education, business, etc. Generally…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-11-04 Huidan Xiao , Tao Yang

Urban parks support public health, but landscape architecture typically examines them through form and function. Prior equitable access research focused on park form, while functional studies relied on small-scale surveys, movement data, or…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-12-16 André Felipe Zanella , Linus W. Dietz , Sanja Šćepanović , Ke Zhou , Zbigniew Smoreda , Daniele Quercia

What people buy is an important aspect or view of lifestyles. Studying people's shopping patterns in different urban regions can not only provide valuable information for various commercial opportunities, but also enable a better…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Tianran Hu , Ruihua Song , Yingzi Wang , Xing Xie , Jiebo Luo

The network structure of an urban transportation system has a significant impact on its traffic performance. This study uses network indicators along with several traffic performance measures including speed, trip length, travel time, and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-07-15 Behnam Amini , Farideddin Peiravian , Morteza Mojarradi , Sybil Derrible

Barriers in cities, such as administrative boundaries, natural obstacles, railways or major roads are thought to induce segregation. However, the empirical knowledge about this phenomenon is limited. Here, we present a network science…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-13 Gergő Pintér , Balázs Lengyel

Urban spaces, though often perceived as discrete communities, are shared by various functional and social groups. Our study introduces a graph-based physics-aware deep learning framework, illuminating the intricate overlapping nature…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-02-02 Peng Luo , Di Zhu

Why are some neighborhoods strongly connected while others remain isolated? Although standard explanations focus on demographics, economics, and geography, movement across the city may also depend on cultural styles and amenity mix. This…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Thiago H Silva , Daniel Silver , Gustavo Santos , Myriam Delgado

Urban morphology and socioeconomic aspects of cities have been explored by analysing urban street network. To analyse the network, several variations of the centrality indices are often used. However, its nature has not yet been widely…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-03-23 Kaoru Yamaoka , Yusuke Kumakoshi , Yuji Yoshimura

This paper investigates the relationship between smart city initiatives and evolving urbanization trends in the United States. The research addresses the critical issue of rapid urban growth in the U.S. and explores how innovations within…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Wayne S Singh

The appearance of large geolocated communication datasets has recently increased our understanding of how social networks relate to their physical space. However, many recurrently reported properties, such as the spatial clustering of…