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Fairness is one of the most desirable societal principles in collective decision-making. It has been extensively studied in the past decades for its axiomatic properties and has received substantial attention from the multiagent systems…

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Random networks are increasingly used to analyse complex transportation networks, such as airline routes, roads and rail networks. So far, this research has been focused on describing the properties of the networks with the help of random…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-19 Jürgen Hackl , Bryan T. Adey

The clustering coefficient, path length and average vertex degree of two urban train line networks have been calculated. The results are compared with theoretical predictions for appropriate random bipartite graphs. They have also been…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Katherine A Seaton , Lisa M Hackett

Uncovering higher-order spatiotemporal dependencies within human mobility networks offers valuable insights into the analysis of urban structures. In most existing studies, human mobility networks are typically constructed by aggregating…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Shuyang Shi , Ding Lyu , Lin Wang , Xiaofan Wang , Guanrong Chen

Cycling is a crucial part of sustainable urban transportation. Promoting cycling critically relies on a sufficiently developed bicycle infrastructure. However, designing efficient bike path networks constitutes a complex problem that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-10-11 Christoph Steinacker , David-Maximilian Storch , Marc Timme , Malte Schröder

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

Mechanism design for a social utility being the sum of agents' utilities (SoU) is a well-studied problem. There are, however, a number of problems of theoretical and practical interest where a designer may have a different objective than…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Abhinav Sinha , Achilleas Anastasopoulos

Efficient public transport systems are crucial for sustainable urban development as cities face increasing mobility demands. Yet, many public transport networks struggle to meet diverse user needs due to historical development, urban…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yannick Metz , Dennis Ackermann , Daniel A. Keim , Maximilian T. Fischer

We investigate the optimal design of networks for a general transport system. Our network is built from a regular two-dimensional ($d=2$) square lattice to be improved by adding long-range connections (shortcuts) with probability $P_{ij}…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-04-24 G. Li , S. D. S. Reis , A. A. Moreira , S. Havlin , H. E. Stanley , J. S. Andrade

Supply chain network is critical to serving customers, so the most common practices are to determine the number, location, and capacity of facilities. But at the same time, uncertainties and risks must be taken into account in order to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-01-19 Khadija Ait Mamoun , Lamia Hammadi , Abdessamad El Ballouti , Eduardo Souza De Cursi

Maximizing robustness and minimizing cost are common objectives in the design of infrastructure networks. However, most infrastructure networks evolve and operate in a highly decentralized fashion, which may significantly impact the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-05-29 Dong-Hee Kim , Adilson E. Motter

Cities can be seen as the epitome of complex systems. They arise from a set of interactions and components so diverse that is almost impossible to describe them exhaustively. Amid this diversity, we chose an object which orchestrates the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-07 Claire Lagesse

In this paper, we consider fair privacy in a shared network subject to traffic analysis attacks by an eavesdropper. We initiate the study of the joint trade-off between privacy, throughput and delay in such a shared network as a utility…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-03-07 Saman Feghhi , Douglas J. Leith , Mohammad Karzand

In this letter, we propose a new routing strategy to improve the transportation efficiency on complex networks. Instead of using the routing strategy for shortest path, we give a generalized routing algorithm to find the so-called {\it…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Gang Yan , Tao Zhou , Bo Hu , Zhong-Qian Fu , Bing-Hong Wang

The problem of providing meaningful routing directions over road networks is of great importance. In many real-life cases, the fastest route may not be the ideal choice for providing directions in written, spoken text, or for an unfamiliar…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-18 Dimitris Sacharidis , Panagiotis Bouros

The increase in congestion in surface traffic, airborne pollution, and other environmental issues have motivated the transit authorities to promote public transit worldwide. In big cities and large metropolitan areas, adding new rapid…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Natividad González-Blanco , Antonio J. Lozano , Vladimir Marianov , Juan A. Mesa

In the last decades, mobility planning has been a fundamental issue for the development of cities. A full knowledge of the way a mobility system influences the traffic behavior of a whole city is needed in order to propose plans aligned…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-04-20 Alessandra Campo , Roberto D'Autilia

In vehicular traffic planning it is a long standing problem how to assign demand such on the available model of a road network that an equilibrium with regard to travel time or generalized costs is realized. For pedestrian traffic this…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-01-09 Tobias Kretz , Karsten Lehmann , Ingmar Hofsäß

In the vision of urban air mobility, air transport systems serve the demands of urban communities by routing flight traffic in networks formed by vertiports and flight corridors. We develop a routing algorithm to ensure that the air traffic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Yue Yu , Zhenyu Gao , Sarah H. Q. Li , Qinshuang Wei , John-Paul Clarke , Ufuk Topcu

With the growing popularity of mobile smart devices, the existing networks are unable to meet the requirement of many complex scenarios; current network architectures and protocols do not work well with the network with high latency and…

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