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The ubiquitous efficiency of going further: how street networks affect travel speed
Gabriel L. Maia, Caio Ponte, Carlos Caminha +3
As cities struggle to adapt to more ``people-centered'' urbanism, transportation planning and engineering must innovate to expand the street network strategically in order to ensur…
Tracing contacts to evaluate the transmission of COVID-19 from highly exposed individuals in public transportation
Caio Ponte, Humberto A. Carmona, Erneson A. Oliveira +4
We investigate, through a data-driven contact tracing model, the transmission of COVID-19 inside buses during distinct phases of the pandemic in a large Brazilian city. From this m…
A worldwide model for boundaries of urban settlements
Erneson A. Oliveira, Vasco Furtado, José S. Andrade +1
The shape of urban settlements plays a fundamental role in their sustainable planning. Properly defining the boundaries of cities is challenging and remains an open problem in the…
Towards Understanding the Impact of Human Mobility on Police Allocation
Carlos Caminha, Vasco Furtado
Motivated by recent findings that human mobility is proxy for crime behavior in big cities and that there is a superlinear relationship between the people's movement and crime, thi…
Human Mobility in Large Cities as a Proxy for Crime
Carlos Caminha, Vasco Furtado, Tarcisio H. C. Pequeno +4
We investigate at the subscale of the neighborhoods of a highly populated city the incidence of property crimes in terms of both the resident and the floating population. Our resul…
Collaboration networks from a large CV database: dynamics, topology and bonus impact
E. B. Araújo, A. A. Moreira, V. Furtado +2
Understanding the dynamics of research production and collaboration may reveal better strategies for scientific careers, academic institutions and funding agencies. Here we propose…