Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Hierarchical organization of urban mobility and its connection with city livability

  • Aleix Bassolas,
  • Hugo Barbosa-Filho,
  • Brian Dickinson,
  • Xerxes Dotiwalla,
  • Paul Eastham,
  • Riccardo Gallotti,
  • Gourab Ghoshal,
  • Bryant Gipson,
  • Surendra A. Hazarie,
  • Henry Kautz,
  • Onur Kucuktunc,
  • Allison Lieber,
  • Adam Sadilek,
  • José J. Ramasco

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12809-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The growing availability of human mobility data can help assess the structure and dynamics of urban environments and their relation to the performance of cities. Here the authors introduce a metric of hierarchy in urban travel and find correlations between levels of hierarchy and other urban indicators.