Street Hierarchies: A Minority of Streets Account for a Majority of Traffic Flow

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2008-02-09

arxiv.org/abs/0802.1284v1

International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 23(8), 1033-1048, 2009

Physics

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability

15 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables, submitted to Int. J. of Geographic Information Science

Scientific paper

10.1080/13658810802004648

Urban streets are hierarchically organized in the sense that a majority of streets are trivial, while a minority of streets is vital. This hierarchy can be simply, but elegantly, characterized by the 80/20 principle, i.e. 80 percent of streets are less connected (below the average), while 20 percent of streets are well connected (above the average); out of the 20 percent, there is 1 percent of streets that are extremely well connected. This paper, using a European city as an example, examined, at a much more detailed level, such street hierarchies from the perspective of geometric and topological properties. Based on an empirical study, we further proved a previous conjecture that a minority of streets accounts for a majority of traffic flow; more accurately, the 20 percent of top streets accommodate 80 percent of traffic flow (20/80), and the 1 percent of top streets account for more than 20 percent of traffic flow (1/20). Our study provides new evidence as to how a city is (self-)organized, contributing to the understanding of cities and their evolution using increasingly available mobility geographic information.

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