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SUBMITTER: Verbavatz V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6629143 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Verbavatz Vincent V Barthelemy Marc M
PloS one 20190715 7
Car traffic in urban systems has been studied intensely in past decades but models are either limited to a specific aspect of traffic or applied to a specific region. Despite the importance and urgency of the problem we have a poor theoretical understanding of the parameters controlling urban car use and congestion. Here, we combine economical and transport ingredients into a statistical physics approach and propose a generic model that predicts for different cities the share of car drivers, the ...[more]