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Street hierarchies: a minority of streets account for a majority of traffic flow
University of Gävle, Department of Technology and Built Environment, Ämnesavdelningen för samhällsbyggnad.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2337-2486
2009 (English)In: International Journal of Geographical Information Science, ISSN 1365-8816, E-ISSN 1365-8824, Vol. 23, no 8, p. 1033-1148Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Urban streets are hierarchically organized in the sense that a majority of streets are trivial, while a minority of streets is vital. This hierarchy can be simply, but elegantly, characterized by the 80/20 principle, i.e. 80% of streets are less connected (below the average), while 20% of streets are well connected (above the average); out of the 20%, there is 1% of streets that are extremely well connected. This paper, using a European city as an example, examined, at a much more detailed level, such street hierarchies from the perspective of geometric and topological properties. Based on an empirical study, we further proved a previous conjecture that a minority of streets accounts for a majority of traffic flow; more accurately, the 20% of top streets accommodate 80% of traffic flow (20/80), and the 1% of top streets account for more than 20% of traffic flow (1/20). Our study provides new evidence as to how a city is (self-)organized, contributing to the understanding of cities and their evolution using increasingly available mobility geographic information.

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UK: Taylor & Francis , 2009. Vol. 23, no 8, p. 1033-1148
Keywords [en]
Pareto distributions; Power laws; Street hierarchy; Traffic; Urban street networks; Zipf's law
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Civil Engineering
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-2210DOI: 10.1080/13658810802004648ISI: 000269605500004Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-70349548495OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hig-2210DiVA, id: diva2:118872
Available from: 2008-09-04 Created: 2008-09-04 Last updated: 2018-03-13Bibliographically approved

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