On the Statistics of Urban Street Networks

2018/10/09 by Jérôme G. M. Benoit, Benoit, Jerome, Saif Eddin Jabari +1
Computer Science · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Engineering · #Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO) #Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis #Data Visualization and Analytics #FOS: Physical sciences #Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph) #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #Urban Design and Spatial Analysis

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1810.04165

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Abstract

We investigate urban street networks as a whole within the frameworks of information physics and statistical physics. Urban street networks are envisaged as evolving social systems subject to a logarithmical entropic equilibrium.

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