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Emergence of spatial transitions in urban congestion dynamics

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    Identifier: imarina:9217417
    Authors:
    Lampo, AnielloBorge-Holthoefer, JavierGomez, SergioSole-Ribalta, Albert
    Abstract:
    The quantitative study of traffic dynamics is crucial to ensure the efficiency of urban transportation networks. The current work investigates the spatial properties of congestion, that is, we aim to characterize the city areas where traffic bottlenecks occur. The analysis of a large amount of real road networks in previous works showed that congestion points experience spatial abrupt transitions, namely they shift away from the city center as larger urban areas are incorporated. The fundamental ingredient behind this effect is the entanglement of central and arterial roads, embedded in separated geographical regions. In this paper we extend the analysis of the conditions yielding abrupt transitions of congestion location. First, we look into the more realistic situation in which arterial and central roads, rather than lying on sharply separated regions, present spatial overlap. It results that this affects the position of bottlenecks and introduces new possible congestion areas. Secondly, we pay particular attention to the role played by the edge distribution, proving that it allows to smooth the transitions profile, and so to control the congestion displacement. Finally, we show that the aforementioned phenomenology may be recovered also as a consequence of a discontinuity in the node’s density, in a domain with uniform connectivity. Our results provide useful insights for the design and optimization of urban road networks, and the management of the daily traffic.
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    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
    Keywords: Urban systems Road networks Phase transitions Congestion road networks phase transitions congestion
    Abstract: The quantitative study of traffic dynamics is crucial to ensure the efficiency of urban transportation networks. The current work investigates the spatial properties of congestion, that is, we aim to characterize the city areas where traffic bottlenecks occur. The analysis of a large amount of real road networks in previous works showed that congestion points experience spatial abrupt transitions, namely they shift away from the city center as larger urban areas are incorporated. The fundamental ingredient behind this effect is the entanglement of central and arterial roads, embedded in separated geographical regions. In this paper we extend the analysis of the conditions yielding abrupt transitions of congestion location. First, we look into the more realistic situation in which arterial and central roads, rather than lying on sharply separated regions, present spatial overlap. It results that this affects the position of bottlenecks and introduces new possible congestion areas. Secondly, we pay particular attention to the role played by the edge distribution, proving that it allows to smooth the transitions profile, and so to control the congestion displacement. Finally, we show that the aforementioned phenomenology may be recovered also as a consequence of a discontinuity in the node’s density, in a domain with uniform connectivity. Our results provide useful insights for the design and optimization of urban road networks, and the management of the daily traffic.
    Thematic Areas: Multidisciplinary sciences Multidisciplinary Computer science, theory & methods Computer networks and communications Computational mathematics
    licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Author's mail: sergio.gomez@urv.cat
    Author identifier: 0000-0003-1820-0062
    Record's date: 2024-10-26
    Journal volume: 6
    Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Link to the original source: https://appliednetsci.springeropen.com/articles/10.1007/s41109-021-00383-6
    Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Papper original source: Applied Network Science. 6 (1): 41-
    APA: Lampo, Aniello; Borge-Holthoefer, Javier; Gomez, Sergio; Sole-Ribalta, Albert (2021). Emergence of spatial transitions in urban congestion dynamics. Applied Network Science, 6(1), 41-. DOI: 10.1007/s41109-021-00383-6
    Article's DOI: 10.1007/s41109-021-00383-6
    Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Journal publication year: 2021
    Publication Type: Journal Publications
  • Keywords:

    Computational Mathematics,Computer Networks and Communications,Computer Science, Theory & Methods,Multidisciplinary,Multidisciplinary Sciences
    Urban systems
    Road networks
    Phase transitions
    Congestion
    road networks
    phase transitions
    congestion
    Multidisciplinary sciences
    Multidisciplinary
    Computer science, theory & methods
    Computer networks and communications
    Computational mathematics
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