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We investigate how efficient each area of urban street network is connected. Using the detour index, geographic features of street network and pairwise efficiency is studied. To do so, the detour index of 1,832,118 travel route pairs for 85…

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Due to the complexity of the traffic flow dynamics in urban road networks, most quantitative descriptions of city traffic so far are based on computer simulations. This contribution pursues a macroscopic (fluid-dynamic) simulation approach,…

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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

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

Cities have developed over time alongside advancements in civilization, focusing on efficient travel and reducing costs. Many studies have examined the distinctive features of urban road networks, such as their length, efficiency,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-20 Diego Ortega , Elka Korutcheva

Balancing traffic flow by influencing drivers' route choices to alleviate congestion is becoming increasingly more appealing in urban traffic planning. Here, we introduce a discrete dynamical model comprising users who make their own…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-09-09 Bo Li , David Saad , Andrey Y. Lokhov

Most large cities are spanned by more than one transportation system. These different modes of transport have usually been studied separately: it is however important to understand the impact on urban systems of the coupling between them…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-09-30 Emanuele Strano , Saray Shai , Simon Dobson , Marc Barthelemy

In most studies, street networks are considered as undirected graphs while one-way streets and their effect on shortest paths are usually ignored. Here, we first study the empirical effect of one-way streets in about $140$ cities in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-21 Vincent Verbavatz , Marc Barthelemy

Urban morphology has long been recognized as a factor shaping human mobility, yet comparative and formal classifications of urban form across metropolitan areas remain limited. Building on theoretical principles of urban structure and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-13 Juan Fernando Riascos-Goyes , Michael Lowry , Nicolás Guarín-Zapata , Juan P. Ospina

In transportation network analysis, various types of road network data can be used even when focusing on the same region. Since different road network datasets can make different performance in analyses, it is necessary to compare them and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Hengyi Zhong , Toru Seo

The increasing urbanization process we have been witnessing in the last decades is accompanied by a significant increase in traffic congestion in cities around the world. The effect of the congestion is represented in the enormous time…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-11-01 Nimrod Serok , Shlomo Havlin , Efrat Blumenfeld Lieberthal

Urban mobility increasingly relies on multimodality, combining the use of bicycle paths, streets, and rail networks. These different modes of transportation are well described by multiplex networks. Here we propose the overlap census method…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-06-16 Luis Natera , Federico Battiston , Gerardo Iñiguez , Michael Szell

Road congestion induces significant costs across the world, and road network disturbances, such as traffic accidents, can cause highly congested traffic patterns. If a planner had control over the routing of all vehicles in the network,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Daniel A. Lazar , Erdem Bıyık , Dorsa Sadigh , Ramtin Pedarsani

Understanding the motivators and deterrents to cycling is essential for creating infrastructure that gets more people to adopt cycling as a mode of transport. This paper demonstrates a new approach to support the prioritization of cycling…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-11 Hussein Mahfouz , Elsa Arcaute , Robin Lovelace

In this paper we revisit the concept of mobility entropy. Over time, the structure of spatial interactions among urban centres tends to become more complex and evolves from centralised models to more scattered origin and destination…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-06-30 Valentina Marin , Carlos Molinero , Elsa Arcaute

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

In this paper, we introduce and test our algorithm to create a road network representation for city-scale active transportation simulation models. The algorithm relies on open and universal data to ensure applicability for different cities…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-10-14 Afshin Jafari , Alan Both , Dhirendra Singh , Lucy Gunn , Billie Giles-Corti

Urban flooding disrupts traffic networks, affecting the mobility and disrupting access of residents. Since flooding events are predicted to increase due to climate change, and given the criticality of traffic networks, understanding the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-10-04 Akhil Anil Rajput , Sanjay Nayak , Shangjia Dong , Ali Mostafavi

Bike-sharing systems have been regarded as a critical component of solutions towards the transition to greener and more sustainable transportation, with the benefits of reducing carbon emissions, improving public health, and mitigating…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-05-18 Xinze Qiu , Tianli Gao , Yu Yang , Ankang Luo , Fan Shang , Ruiqi Li

Understanding the dynamics of traffic clusters is crucial for enhancing urban transportation systems, particularly in managing congestion and free-flow states. This study applies computational percolation theory to analyze the formation and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-30 Yongsung Kwon , Minjin Lee , Mi Jin Lee , Seung-Woo Son