A simple contagion process describes spreading of traffic jams in urban networks

Meead Saberi; Homayoun Hamedmoghadam; Mudabber Ashfaq; Seyed Amir Hosseini; Ziyuan Gu; Sajjad Shafiei; Divya J. Nair; Vinayak Dixit; Lauren Gardner; S. Travis Waller; Marta C. González

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-15353-2

Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

A simple contagion process describes spreading of traffic jams in urban networks

Meead Saberi,
Homayoun Hamedmoghadam,
Mudabber Ashfaq,
Seyed Amir Hosseini,
Ziyuan Gu,
Sajjad Shafiei,
Divya J. Nair,
Vinayak Dixit,
Lauren Gardner,
S. Travis Waller,
Marta C. González

Affiliations

Meead Saberi: Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI), School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Homayoun Hamedmoghadam: Department of Civil Engineering, Institute of Transport Studies, Monash University
Mudabber Ashfaq: Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI), School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Seyed Amir Hosseini: School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, K.N. Toosi University of Technology
Ziyuan Gu: Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI), School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Sajjad Shafiei: Data61, CSIRO
Divya J. Nair: Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI), School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Vinayak Dixit: Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI), School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Lauren Gardner: Department of Civil Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
S. Travis Waller: Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI), School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Marta C. González: College of Environmental Design, University of California

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15353-2
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Predicting and controlling traffic congestion propagation is an ongoing challenge in most urban settings. Here, Seberi et al. apply a contagion model describing epidemic spread in population to model traffic jams, and verify its validity using large-scale data from six different cities around the world.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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