Cities as Organisms: Allometric Scaling of Urban Road Networks
We propose a statistical approach to determine the features of urban road networks affecting accessibility. Our approach is inspired by metabolic scaling theory (MST) in biology (West et al. 1997).We study the structure of road networks across 425 cities of different sizes in the USA. We show decent...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Minnesota
2008-07-01
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| Series: | Journal of Transport and Land Use |
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| Online Access: | https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/29 |