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SUBMITTER: Lee M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5738436 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20171220 1
The city is a complex system that evolves through its inherent social and economic interactions. Mediating the movements of people and resources, urban street networks offer a spatial footprint of these activities. Of particular interest is the interplay between street structure and its functional usage. Here, we study the shape of 472,040 spatiotemporally optimized travel routes in the 92 most populated cities in the world, finding that their collective morphology exhibits a directional bias in ...[more]