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Cohesive urban bicycle infrastructure design through optimal transport routing in multilayer networks
Alessandro Lonardi, Michael Szell, Caterina De Bacco
Bicycle infrastructure networks must meet the needs of cyclists to position cycling as a viable transportation choice in cities. In particular, protected infrastructure should be p…
superblockify: A Python Package for Automated Generation, Visualization, and Analysis of Potential Superblocks in Cities
Carlson Moses Büth, Anastassia Vybornova, Michael Szell
superblockify is a Python package for partitioning an urban street network into Superblock-like neighborhoods and for visualizing and analyzing the partition results. A Superblock…
Urban highways are barriers to social ties
Luca Maria Aiello, Anastassia Vybornova, Sándor Juhász +2
Urban highways are common, especially in the US, making cities more car-centric. They promise the annihilation of distance but obstruct pedestrian mobility, thus playing a key role…
Urban Mobility
Laura Alessandretti, Michael Szell
In this chapter, we discuss urban mobility from a complexity science perspective. First, we give an overview of the datasets that enable this approach, such as mobile phone records…
Automated Detection of Missing Links in Bicycle Networks
Anastassia Vybornova, Tiago Cunha, Astrid Gühnemann +1
Cycling is an effective solution for making urban transport more sustainable. However, bicycle networks are typically developed in a slow, piecewise process that leaves open a larg…
Multimodal urban mobility and multilayer transport networks
Luis Guillermo Natera Orozco, Laura Alessandretti, Meead Saberi +2
Transportation networks, from bicycle paths to buses and railways, are the backbone of urban mobility. In large metropolitan areas, the integration of different transport modes has…
Growing Urban Bicycle Networks
Michael Szell, Sayat Mimar, Tyler Perlman +2
Cycling is a promising solution to unsustainable urban transport systems. However, prevailing bicycle network development follows a slow and piecewise process, without taking into…
Extracting the multimodal fingerprint of urban transportation networks
Luis Natera, Federico Battiston, Gerardo Iñiguez +1
Urban mobility increasingly relies on multimodality, combining the use of bicycle paths, streets, and rail networks. These different modes of transportation are well described by m…
The hidden universality of movement in cities
Markus Schläpfer, Michael Szell, Hadrien Salat +2
The interaction of all mobile species with their environment hinges on their movement patterns: the places they visit and how frequently they go there. In human society, where the…
Data-driven strategies for optimal bicycle network growth
Luis Natera, Federico Battiston, Gerardo Iñiguez +1
Urban transportation networks, from sidewalks and bicycle paths to streets and rail lines, provide the backbone for movement and socioeconomic life in cities. These networks can be…
Taking census of physics
Federico Battiston, Federico Musciotto, Dashun Wang +3
Over the past decades, the diversity of areas explored by physicists has exploded, encompassing new topics from biophysics and chemical physics to network science. However, it is u…
Interdisciplinarity: A Nobel Opportunity
Michael Szell, Yifang Ma, Roberta Sinatra
Interdisciplinary collaborations now sweep most fields of the natural and life sciences, necessary to tackle the world's most challenging problems. Yet, the scientific enterprise c…
Scaling Law of Urban Ride Sharing
Remi Tachet, Oleguer Sagarra, Paolo Santi +4
Sharing rides could drastically improve the efficiency of car and taxi transportation. Unleashing such potential, however, requires understanding how urban parameters affect the fr…
Analyses of a Virtual World
Yurij Holovatch, Olesya Mryglod, Michael Szell +1
We present an overview of a series of results obtained from the analysis of human behavior in a virtual environment. We focus on the massive multiplayer online game (MMOG) Pardus w…
Identifying the structural discontinuities of human interactions
Sebastian Grauwin, Michael Szell, Stanislav Sobolevsky +6
The idea of a hierarchical spatial organization of society lies at the core of seminal theories in human geography that have strongly influenced our understanding of social organiz…
Supersampling and network reconstruction of urban mobility
Oleguer Sagarra, Michael Szell, Paolo Santi +2
Understanding human mobility is of vital importance for urban planning, epidemiology, and many other fields that aim to draw policies from the activities of humans in space. Despit…
Interevent time distributions of human multi-level activity in a virtual world
Olesya Mryglod, Benedikt Fuchs, Michael Szell +2
Studying human behaviour in virtual environments provides extraordinary opportunities for a quantitative analysis of social phenomena with levels of accuracy that approach those of…
Entropy and the Predictability of Online Life
Roberta Sinatra, Michael Szell
Using mobile phone records and information theory measures, our daily lives have been recently shown to follow strict statistical regularities, and our movement patterns are to a l…
Quantifying the benefits of vehicle pooling with shareability networks
Paolo Santi, Giovanni Resta, Michael Szell +3
Taxi services are a vital part of urban transportation, and a considerable contributor to traffic congestion and air pollution causing substantial adverse effects on human health.…
Contraction of online response to major events
Michael Szell, Sebastian Grauwin, Carlo Ratti
Quantifying regularities in behavioral dynamics is of crucial interest for understanding collective social events such as panics or political revolutions. With the widespread use o…
How women organize social networks different from men
Michael Szell, Stefan Thurner
Superpositions of social networks, such as communication, friendship, or trade networks, are called multiplex networks, forming the structural backbone of human societies. Novel da…
Understanding mobility in a social petri dish
Michael Szell, Roberta Sinatra, Giovanni Petri +2
Despite the recent availability of large data sets on human movements, a full understanding of the rules governing motion within social systems is still missing, due to incomplete…
Emergence of good conduct, scaling and Zipf laws in human behavioral sequences in an online world
Stefan Thurner, Michel Szell, Roberta Sinatra
We study behavioral action sequences of players in a massive multiplayer online game. In their virtual life players use eight basic actions which allow them to interact with each o…
Multirelational Organization of Large-scale Social Networks in an Online World
Michael Szell, Renaud Lambiotte, Stefan Thurner
The capacity to collect fingerprints of individuals in online media has revolutionized the way researchers explore human society. Social systems can be seen as a non-linear superpo…