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20232026
most citedA review of the structure of street networks

9 citations · 10 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

physics.soc-ph2026

Geometry of Urban Order

Marc Barthelemy, Geoff Boeing

Urban street networks are modeled as spatial graphs whose geometry reflects planning, history, and physical constraints. Global orientation measures describe the overall order of a…

physics.soc-ph2026★ 1 cited

Crowding controls the scaling of bus frequency with demand

Siddharth Patwardhan, Şirag Erkol, Filippo Radicchi +1

Cities must allocate limited resources to maintain mobility, with uncertainties about the resulting state of the system. Analyzing roughly 3,000 bus routes with more than 4 billion…

physics.soc-ph2025

Universal Model of Urban Street Networks

Marc Barthelemy, Geoff Boeing

Analyzing 9,000 urban areas' street networks, we identify properties, including extreme betweenness centrality heterogeneity, that typical spatial network models fail to explain. A…

physics.soc-ph2025

From lines to networks

Marc Barthelemy

Many real-world networks, ranging from subway systems to polymer structures and fungal mycelia, do not form by the incremental addition of individual nodes but instead grow through…

physics.soc-ph2025

Critical demand in a stochastic model of flows in supply networks

Yannick Feld, Marc Barthelemy

Supply networks are essential for modern production, yet their critical properties remain understudied. We present a stochastic model with random production capacities to analyze m…

physics.soc-ph2025

Surfacic networks

Marc Barthelemy, Geoff Boeing, Alain Chiarada +1

Surfacic networks are structures built upon a two-dimensional manifold. Many systems, including transportation networks and various urban networks, fall into this category. The flu…

physics.soc-ph2024

Fragility of Chess positions: measure, universality and tipping points

Marc Barthelemy

We introduce a novel metric to quantify the fragility of chess positions using the interaction graph of pieces. This fragility score captures the tension within a position and…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 9 cited

A review of the structure of street networks

Marc Barthelemy, Geoff Boeing

We review measures of street network structure proposed in the recent literature, establish their relevance to practice, and identify open challenges facing researchers. These meas…

physics.soc-ph2024

A typology of activities over a century of urban growth

Julie Gravier, Marc Barthelemy

Contemporary literature on the dynamics of economic activities in growing cities mainly focused on a few years or decades time frames. Using a new geo-historical database construct…

physics.soc-ph2023

A Stochastic Block Hypergraph model

Alexis Pister, Marc Barthelemy

The stochastic block model is widely used to generate graphs with a community structure, but no simple alternative currently exists for hypergraphs, in which more than two nodes ca…

physics.soc-ph2023

Symmetry breaking in optimal transport networks

Siddharth Patwardhan, Marc Barthelemy, Sirag Erkol +2

Despite its importance for practical applications, not much is known about the optimal shape of a network that connects in an efficient way a set of points. This problem can be for…

physics.soc-ph2023

Structure of road networks and the shape of the macroscopic fundamental diagram

Erwan Taillanter, Andreas Schadschneider, Marc Barthelemy

The macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD) is a large scale description of the traffic in a urban area and relates the average car flow to the average car density. This MFD has been…