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physics.soc-ph2025★ 5 cited

Robust design of bicycle infrastructure networks

Christoph Steinacker, Mads Paulsen, Malte Schröder +1

Promoting active mobility like cycling relies on the availability of well-connected, high-quality bicycle networks. However, expanding these networks over an extended planning hori…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 10 cited

CoolWalks for active mobility in urban street networks

Henrik Wolf, Ane Rahbek Vierø, Michael Szell

Walking is the most sustainable form of urban mobility, but is compromised by uncomfortable or unhealthy sun exposure, which is an increasing problem due to global warming. Shade f…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 25 cited

Topological Determinants of Perturbation Spreading in Networks

Xiaozhu Zhang, Dirk Witthaut, Marc Timme

Spreading phenomena essentially underlie the dynamics of various natural and technological networked systems, yet how spatiotemporal propagation patterns emerge from such networks…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 11 cited

Multifunctional, Self-Cleaning Air Filters Based on Graphene-Enhanced Ceramic Networks

Armin Reimers, Ala Bouhanguel, Erik Greve +9

Particulate air pollution is taking a huge toll on modern society, being associated with more than three million deaths per year. In addition, airborne infectious microorganism can…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 8 cited

Recreational Mobility Prior and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Zahra Ghadiri, Afra Mashhadi, Marc Timme +1

The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic recession negatively affected many people's physical, social, and psychological health and has been shown to change population-leve…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 1 cited

Formation of trade networks by economies of scale and product differentiation

Chengyuan Han, Malte Schröder, Dirk Witthaut +1

Understanding the structure and formation of networks is a central topic in complexity science. Economic networks are formed by decisions of individual agents and thus not properly…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 11 cited

Collective dynamics of capacity-constrained ride-pooling fleets

Robin M. Zech, Nora Molkenthin, Marc Timme +1

Ride-pooling (or ride-sharing) services combine trips of multiple customers along similar routes into a single vehicle. The collective dynamics of the fleet of ride-pooling vehicle…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 2 cited

Demand-driven design of bicycle infrastructure networks for improved urban bikeability

Christoph Steinacker, David-Maximilian Storch, Marc Timme +1

Cycling is a crucial part of sustainable urban transportation. Promoting cycling critically relies on a sufficiently developed bicycle infrastructure. However, designing efficient…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 15 cited

Dynamic stop pooling for flexible and sustainable ride sharing

Charlotte Lotze, Philip Marszal, Malte Schröder +1

Ride sharing - the bundling of simultaneous trips of several people in one vehicle - may help to reduce the carbon footprint of human mobility. However, standard door-to-door ride…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 8 cited

Dynamic perturbation spreading in networks

Malte Schröder, Xiaozhu Zhang, Justine Wolter +1

Understanding how local perturbations induce the transient dynamics of a network of coupled units is essential to control and operate such systems. Often a perturbation initiated i…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 3 cited

Obscuring digital route choice information prevents delay-induced congestion

Verena Krall, Max F. Burg, Friedrich Pagenkopf +3

Although routing applications increasingly affect individual mobility choices, their impact on collective traffic dynamics remains largely unknown. Smart communication technologies…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 9 cited

Spontaneous symmetry breaking in ride-sharing adoption dynamics

Henrik Wolf, David-Maximilian Storch, Marc Timme +1

Symmetry breaking ubiquitously occurs across complex systems, from phase transition in statistical physics to self-organized lane formation in pedestrian dynamics. Here, we uncover…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 18 cited

Social distancing in pedestrian dynamics and its effect on disease spreading

Sina Sajjadi, Alireza Hashemi, Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad

Non-pharmaceutical measures such as social distancing, can play an important role to control an epidemic in the absence of vaccinations. In this paper, we study the impact of socia…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 6 cited

Traffic flow splitting from crowdsourced digital route choice support

David-Maximilian Storch, Malte Schröder, Marc Timme

Digital technology is fundamentally transforming human mobility. Route choices in particular are greatly affected by the availability of traffic data, increased connectivity of dat…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 59 cited

Incentive-driven transition to high ride-sharing adoption

David-Maximilian Storch, Marc Timme, Malte Schröder

Ride-sharing - the combination of multiple trips into one - may substantially contribute towards sustainable urban mobility. It is most efficient at high demand locations with many…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 61 cited

Open data base analysis of scaling and spatio-temporal properties of power grid frequencies

Leonardo Rydin Gorjão, Richard Jumar, Heiko Maass +7

The electrical energy system has attracted much attention from an increasingly diverse research community. Many theoretical predictions have been made, from scaling laws of fluctua…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 27 cited

Anomalous supply shortages from dynamic pricing in on-demand mobility

Malte Schröder, David-Maximilian Storch, Philip Marszal +1

Dynamic pricing schemes are increasingly employed across industries to maintain a self-organized balance of demand and supply. However, throughout complex dynamical systems, uninte…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 15 cited

Topology dependence of on-demand ride-sharing

Debsankha Manik, Nora Molkenthin

Traffic is a challenge in rural and urban areas alike with negative effects ranging from congestion to air pollution. Ride-sharing poses an appealing alternative to personal cars,…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 1 cited

Reconstruction of Demand Shocks in Input-Output Networks

Chengyuan Han, Johannes Többen, Wilhelm Kuckshinrichs +2

Input-Output analysis describes the dependence of production, demand and trade between sectors and regions and allows to understand the propagation of economic shocks through econo…

physics.soc-ph2019★ 27 cited

Topological universality of on-demand ride-sharing efficiency

Nora Molkenthin, Malte Schröder, Marc Timme

Ride-sharing may substantially contribute to future-compliant sustainable mobility, both in urban and rural areas. The service quality of ride-sharing fleets jointly depends on the…

physics.soc-ph2019★ 11 cited

Multilayer modeling of adoption dynamics in energy demand management

Iacopo Iacopini, Benjamin Schäfer, Elsa Arcaute +2

Due to the emergence of new technologies, the whole electricity system is undergoing transformations on a scale and pace never observed before. The decentralization of energy resou…

physics.soc-ph2019★ 14 cited

The winner takes it all -- How to win network globalization

Chengyuan Han, Dirk Witthaut, Marc Timme +1

Quantifying the importance and power of individual nodes depending on their position in socio-economic networks constitutes a problem across a variety of applications. Examples inc…

physics.soc-ph2018★ 4 cited

Adhesion-induced Discontinuous Transitions and Classifying Social Networks

Nora Molkenthin, Malte Schröder, Marc Timme

Transition points mark qualitative changes in the macroscopic properties of large complex systems. Explosive transitions, exhibiting properties of both continuous and discontinuous…

physics.soc-ph2018★ 166 cited

Model-free inference of direct network interactions from nonlinear collective dynamics

Jose Casadiego, Mor Nitzan, Sarah Hallerberg +1

The topology of interactions in network dynamical systems fundamentally underlies their function. Accelerating technological progress creates massively available data about collect…