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Using data on the Berlin public transport network, the present study extends previous observations of fractality within public transport routes by showing that also the distribution of inter-station distances along routes displays…

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

Urban transportation networks are inherently vulnerable to disruptions that affect connectivity and passenger mobility. Traditional graph_theoretic metrics, such as betweenness and degree centrality, offer insights into local network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-29 Iman Seyedi , Antonio Candelieri , Enza Messina , Francesco Archetti

This study validates the continuum traffic flow model of capacity drop at sag and tunnel bottlenecks, as proposed by Jin (2018) and Wada et al. (2020), through empirical analysis. Specifically, after addressing the limitations in the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-30 Shin-ichiro Kai , Ryota Horiguchi , Jian Xing , Kentaro Wada

The behavior 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 to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-07-06 B. Berche , C. von Ferber , T. Holovatch , Yu. Holovatch

Multi-step passenger demand forecasting is a crucial task in on-demand vehicle sharing services. However, predicting passenger demand over multiple time horizons is generally challenging due to the nonlinear and dynamic spatial-temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Lei Bai , Lina Yao , Salil. S Kanhere , Xianzhi Wang , Quan. Z Sheng

In this paper, urban traffic is modeled using dual graph representation of urban transportation network where roads are mapped to nodes and intersections are mapped to links. The proposed model considers both the navigation of vehicles on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Mao-Bin Hu , Rui Jiang , Yong-Hong Wu , Wen-Xu Wang , Qing-Song Wu

After a decade of on-demand mobility services that change spatial behaviors in metropolitan areas, the Shared Autonomous Vehicle (SAV) service is expected to increase traffic congestion and unequal access to transport services. A paradigm…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Ronit Purian , Daniel Polani

In this paper, we propose a novel quantum computing approach to solve the real-world problem of optimizing transportation in bustling Kathmandu city. The transportation system in Kathmandu is chaotic, with no central authority controlling…

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

We introduce a new model to study the oscillations of opposite flows sharing a common bottleneck and moving on two Totally Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process (TASEP) lanes. We provide a theoretical analysis of the phase diagram, valid when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-06-15 Asja Jelić , Cécile Appert-Rolland , Ludger Santen

We study the Braess paradox in the transport network as originally proposed by Braess with totally asymmetric exclusion processes (TASEPs) on the edges. The Braess paradox describes the counterintuitive situation in which adding an edge to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-28 Stefan Bittihn , Andreas Schadschneider

Urban bus transit agencies need reliable, network-wide delay predictions to provide accurate arrival information to passengers and support real-time operational control. Accurate predictions help passengers plan their trips, reduce waiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Emna Boudabbous , Mohamed Karaa , Lokman Sboui , Julio Montecinos , Omar Alam

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

Urban space is highly heterogeneous, with population and human activities concentrating in localized centers. However, the global organization of such intra-urban centers remains poorly understood due to the lack of consistent, comparable…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-21 Shuai Pang , Junlong Zhang , Yu Liu , Lei Dong

Parking infrastructure is pervasive and occupies large swaths of land in cities. However, on-demand (OD) mobility -- such as commercial services Uber, Grab or Didi -- has started reducing parking needs in urban areas around the world. This…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-21 Daniel Kondor , Paolo Santi , Diem-Trinh Le , Xiaohu Zhang , Adam Millard-Ball , Carlo Ratti

Public transit is a critical component of urban mobility and equity, yet mobility and air-quality linkages are rarely operationalized in reproducible smart-city analytics workflows. This study develops a transparent, multi-source monitoring…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-06 Sean Elliott , Sohini Roy

Bike-sharing systems are becoming important for urban transportation. In such systems, users arrive at a station, take a bike and use it for a while, then return it to another station of their choice. Each station has a finite capacity: it…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-03-19 Christine Fricker , Nicolas Gast

This study models and examines commuter's preferences for short-distance transportation modes, namely: walking, taking a bus or riding a metro. It is used a unique dataset from a large-scale field experiment in Singapore that provides rich…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-02-22 Francisco Benita , Garvit Bansal , Georgios Piliouras , Bige Tunçer

Designing Public Transport (PT) networks able to satisfy mobility needs of people is essential to reduce the number of individual vehicles on the road, and thus pollution and congestion. Urban sustainability is thus tightly coupled to an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Duo Wang , Maximilien Chau , Andrea Araldo

Predicting future bus trip chains for an existing user is of great significance for operators of public transit systems. Existing methods always treat this task as a time-series prediction problem, but the 1-dimensional time series…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Xiannan Huang , Yixin Chen , Quan Yuan , Chao Yang