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20192023
most citedThe growth equation of cities

109 citations · 204 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

physics.soc-ph2023

Modeling the spatial dynamics of income in cities

Vincent Verbavatz, Marc Barthelemy

Urban inequality is a major challenge for cities in the 21st century. This inequality is reflected in the spatial income structure of cities which evolves in time through various p…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 15 cited

Betweenness centrality in dense spatial networks

Vincent Verbavatz, Marc Barthelemy

The betweenness centrality (BC) is an important quantity for understanding the structure of complex large networks. However, its calculation is in general difficult and known in si…

cond-mat.stat-mech2021★ 15 cited

From one-way streets to percolation on random mixed graphs

Vincent Verbavatz, Marc Barthelemy

In most studies, street networks are considered as undirected graphs while one-way streets and their effect on shortest paths are usually ignored. Here, we first study the empirica…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 109 cited

The growth equation of cities

Vincent Verbavatz, Marc Barthelemy

The science of cities seeks to understand and explain regularities observed in the world's major urban systems. Modelling the population evolution of cities is at the core of this…

physics.soc-ph2020

Access to mass rapid transit in OECD urban areas

Vincent Verbavatz, Marc Barthelemy

As mitigating car traffic in cities has become paramount to abate climate change effects, fostering public transport in cities appears ever-more appealing. A key ingredient in that…

physics.soc-ph2019★ 65 cited

Critical factors for mitigating car traffic in cities

Vincent Verbavatz, Marc Barthelemy

Car traffic in urban systems has been studied intensely in past decades but models are either limited to a specific aspect of traffic or applied to a specific region. Despite the i…