Physicist’s approach to public transportation networks: between data processing and statistical physics

Yaryna Korduba, Yurij Holovatch, Robin de Regt

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In this paper we aim to demonstrate how physical perspective enriches statistical analysis when dealing with a complex system of many interacting agents of non-physical origin. To this end, we discuss analysis of urban public transportation networks viewed as complex systems. In such studies, a multi-disciplinary approach is applied by integrating methods in both data processing and statistical physics to investigate the correlation between public transportation network topological features and their operational stability. These studies incorporate concepts of coarse graining and clusterization, universality and scaling, stability and percolation behavior, diffusion and fractal analysis.

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Complex systems; complex networks; statistical physics; transportation networks

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/a.2019.73.2.69-89
Date of publication: 2020-01-16 07:29:33
Date of submission: 2019-12-31 22:07:25


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