2008/02/25 by Bruno Augusto Nassif Travençolo, Luciano da Fontoura Costa, Travençolo, Bruno Augusto Nassif +1
Computer Science · Engineering · Social Sciences · #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Transportation Planning and Optimization #Urban Design and Spatial Analysis #Urban Transport and Accessibility #cs.CY
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0802.3665
4 pages, 2 figures. The following article has been submitted to Applied Physics Letters. After it is published, it will be found at http://apl.aip.org
arxiv created 2008/02/25 · openalex publication_date 2008/02/25 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
The dynamics of transportation through towns and cities is strongly affected by the topology of the connections and routes. The current work describes an approach combining complex networks and self-avoiding random walk dynamics in order to quantify in objective and accurate manner, along a range of spatial scales, the accessibility of places in towns and cities. The transition probabilities are estimated for several lengths of the walks and used to calculate the outward accessibility of each node. The potential of the methodology is illustrated with respect to the characterization and improvements of the accessibility of the town of Sao Carlos.