Author, as appears in the article.: Lampo, Aniello; Borge-Holthoefer, Javier; Gomez, Sergio; Sole-Ribalta, Albert
Department: Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques
URV's Author/s: Gómez Jiménez, Sergio / Solé Ribalta, Albert
Keywords: Urban transportation Urban growth Traffic dynamics Spatial separation Spatial dependencies Separation Roads and streets Road network model Physics Motor transportation Model Geographical area Dynamics Design and optimization Complexity science Complex networks Communicability Betweenness centrality Algorithm Abrupt transition
Abstract: During the last decades, the study of cities has been transformed by new approaches combining engineering and complexity sciences. Network theory is playing a central role, facilitating the quantitative analysis of crucial urban dynamics, such as mobility, city growth, or urban planning. In this work we focus on the spatial aspects of congestion. Analyzing a large amount of real city networks, we show that the location of the onset of congestion changes according to the considered urban area, defining, in turn, a set of congestion regimes separated by abrupt transitions. To help unveiling this spatial dependencies of congestion (in terms of network betweenness analysis), we introduce a family of planar road network models composed by a dense urban center connected to an arboreal periphery. These models, coined as GT and DT-MST models, allow us to analytically, numerically, and experimentally describe how and why congestion emerges in particular geographical areas of monocentric cities and, subsequently, to describe the congestion regimes and the factors that promote the appearance of their abrupt transitions. We show that the fundamental ingredient behind the observed abrupt transitions is the spatial separation between the urban center and the periphery, and the number of separated areas that form the periphery. Elaborating on the implications of our results, we show that they may have influence in the design and optimization of road networks regarding urban growth and the management of daily traffic dynamics.
Thematic Areas: Physics, multidisciplinary Physics and astronomy (miscellaneous) Physics and astronomy (all)
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: albert.sole@urv.cat sergio.gomez@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-2953-5338 0000-0003-1820-0062
Record's date: 2024-10-26
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.013267
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Physical Review Research. 3 (1): 013267-
APA: Lampo, Aniello; Borge-Holthoefer, Javier; Gomez, Sergio; Sole-Ribalta, Albert (2021). Multiple abrupt phase transitions in urban transport congestion. Physical Review Research, 3(1), 013267-. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.013267
Article's DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.013267
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2021
Publication Type: Journal Publications