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System optimality versus self-organization in metro networks: An optimal transport analysis
Tianyu Dong, Jiazu Zhou, Markus Schläpfer
Urban transportation network design is typically approached through top-down planning grounded in engineering and economics. Yet cities are complex systems characterized by feedbac…
Using Mobility Patterns for the Planning of Vehicle-to-Grid Infrastructures that Support Photovoltaics in Cities
Markus Schläpfer, Hong Jun Chew, Seanglidet Yean +1
The vehicle-to-grid (V2G) concept utilises electric vehicles as distributed energy storage and thus may help to balance out the intermittent availability of renewable energy source…
Mobile phone data's potential for informing infrastructure planning in developing countries
Hadrien Salat, Zbigniew Smoreda, Markus Schläpfer
High quality census data are not always available in developing countries. Instead, mobile phone data are becoming a trending proxy to evaluate population density, activity and soc…
The Canary in the City: Indicator Groups as Predictors of Urban Change
Aike Alexander Steentoft, Ate Poorthuis, Bu-Sung Lee +1
As cities grow, certain neighborhoods experience a particularly high demand for housing, resulting in escalating rents. Despite far-reaching socioeconomic consequences, it remains…
Urban Skylines: building heights and shapes as measures of city size
Markus Schläpfer, Joey Lee, Luís M. A. Bettencourt
The shape of buildings plays a critical role in the energy efficiency, lifestyles, land use and infrastructure systems of cities. Thus, as most of the world's cities continue to gr…
Centralized versus Decentralized Infrastructure Networks
Paul D. H. Hines, Seth Blumsack, Markus Schläpfer
While many large infrastructure networks, such as power, water, and natural gas systems, have similar physical properties governing flows, these systems tend to have distinctly dif…
Using Mobile Phone Data for Electricity Infrastructure Planning
Eduardo Alejandro Martinez-Cesena, Pierluigi Mancarella, Mamadou Ndiaye +1
Detailed knowledge of the energy needs at relatively high spatial and temporal resolution is crucial for the electricity infrastructure planning of a region. However, such informat…
The scaling of human interactions with city size
Markus Schläpfer, Luis M. A. Bettencourt, Sebastian Grauwin +5
The size of cities is known to play a fundamental role in social and economic life. Yet, its relation to the structure of the underlying network of human interactions has not been…