Flow dimension and capacity for structuring urban street networks

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 387, Issue 16-17, 2008, Pages 4440-4452

  Jiang, Bin ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Flow capacity; Flow dimension; Small worlds; Urban street networks

Indexed keywords

RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; TOPOLOGY; URBAN PLANNING;

FLOW CAPACITY; FLOW DIMENSION; POWER-LAW DISTRIBUTION; URBAN STREET NETWORKS;

STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 43149099434     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2008.02.047     Document Type: Article

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