Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

Morphology of travel routes and the organization of cities

  • Minjin Lee,
  • Hugo Barbosa,
  • Hyejin Youn,
  • Petter Holme,
  • Gourab Ghoshal

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02374-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Complex networks are a useful tool to investigate the structure of cities and their street networks. Here the authors investigate the shape of travel routes in 92 cities and define a metric called inness which reveals connections between common urban features in cities with similar inness profiles.