Modeling urban street patterns

Details Modeling urban street patterns Modeling urban street patterns

2007-08-31

arxiv.org/abs/0708.4360v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 138702 (2008)

Physics

Physics and Society

4 pages, 5 figures, final version published in PRL

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.138702

Urban streets patterns form planar networks whose empirical properties cannot be accounted for by simple models such as regular grids or Voronoi tesselations. Striking statistical regularities across different cities have been recently empirically found, suggesting that a general and details-independent mechanism may be in action. We propose a simple model based on a local optimization process combined with ideas previously proposed in studies of leaf pattern formation. The statistical properties of this model are in good agreement with the observed empirical patterns. Our results thus suggests that in the absence of a global design strategy, the evolution of many different transportation networks indeed follow a simple universal mechanism.

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