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SUBMITTER: Suen JY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6544892 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Suen Jonathan Y JY Navlakha Saket S
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 20190501 154
Both engineered and biological transportation networks face trade-offs in their design. Network users desire to quickly get from one location in the network to another, whereas network planners need to minimize costs in building infrastructure. Here, we use the theory of Pareto optimality to study this design trade-off in the road networks of 101 cities, with wide-ranging population sizes, land areas and geographies. Using a simple one parameter trade-off function, we find that most cities lie n ...[more]