How congestion shapes cities: from mobility patterns to scaling
arXiv:1401.8200 · doi:10.1038/srep05561
Abstract
The recent availability of data for cities has allowed scientists to exhibit scalings which present themselves in the form of a power-law dependence with population of various socio-economical and structural indicators. We propose here a dynamical, stochastic theory of urban growth which accounts for some of the observed scalings and we confirm these results on US and OECD empirical data. In particular, we show that the dependence with population size of the total number of miles driven daily, the total length of the road network, the total traffic delay, the total consumption of gasoline, the quantity of emitted and the relation between area and population of cities, are all governed by a single parameter which characterizes the sensitivity to congestion. Finally, our results suggest that diseconomies associated with congestion scale superlinearly with population size, implying that, despite polycentrism, cities whose transportation infrastructure rely heavily on traffic sensitive modes are unsustainable.
15 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables; modified version with additional discussions and references
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