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Surveying traffic congestion based on the concept of community structure of complex networks

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  • Lili Ma

    (School of Statistics, Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing 100070, China)

  • Zhanli Zhang

    (School of Statistics and Mathematics, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing 100081, China)

  • Meng Li

    (Key Laboratory of Mathematics, Informatics and Behavioral, Semantics of Ministry of Education, Beijing 100191, China)

Abstract

In this paper, taking the traffic of Beijing city as an instance, we study city traffic states, especially traffic congestion, based on the concept of network community structure. Concretely, using the floating car data (FCD) information of vehicles gained from the intelligent transport system (ITS) of the city, we construct a new traffic network model which is with floating cars as network nodes and time-varying. It shows that this traffic network has Gaussian degree distributions at different time points. Furthermore, compared with free traffic situations, our simulations show that the traffic network generally has more obvious community structures with larger values of network fitness for congested traffic situations, and through the GPSspg web page, we show that all of our results are consistent with the reality. Then, it indicates that network community structure should be an available way for investigating city traffic congestion problems.

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  • Lili Ma & Zhanli Zhang & Meng Li, 2016. "Surveying traffic congestion based on the concept of community structure of complex networks," International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 27(12), pages 1-16, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijmpcx:v:27:y:2016:i:12:n:s0129183116501497
    DOI: 10.1142/S0129183116501497
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    1. Liyin Shen & Lei Du & Xining Yang & Xiaoyun Du & Jinhuan Wang & Jianli Hao, 2018. "Sustainable Strategies for Transportation Development in Emerging Cities in China: A Simulation Approach," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(3), pages 1-22, March.

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