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New York city taxi trips: Dynamic networks following inconsistent power law

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  • Jianjun Qin

    (Shanghai Institute of Disaster Prevention and Relief, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, P. R. China)

  • Maohui Zheng

    (Shanghai Institute of Disaster Prevention and Relief, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, P. R. China3School of Computing and Information Science, University of Maine, Orono 04469, ME, USA)

Abstract

The present paper maps the records of urban taxi trips into dynamic networks, where nodes are the communities and links represent the recorded taxi trips between them. The dynamic urban taxi trip networks, where nodes are the communities and links represent the recorded taxi trips between them, are formulated here as a special type of large-scale traffic system with an enormous impact on the city, in which the existence of uncertainties together with the spatial and temporal variation in the distribution of the taxi trips are considered. Three types of indicators are proposed to facilitate the measurement of the activities between and inside the communities (nodes of the network) from qualitative and quantitative perspectives. It could be found from the analysis of the records within the New York city that these indicators are inconsistent to each other, and nevertheless, none of them distributes uniformly within the city but generally follows the power law in spite of their time-dependent properties. Further, the unusually low values of the scaling parameters from the curve fitting with power law for all the proposed indicators illustrate the severe inhomogeneity of the networks (also the city).

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  • Jianjun Qin & Maohui Zheng, 2017. "New York city taxi trips: Dynamic networks following inconsistent power law," International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 28(07), pages 1-19, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijmpcx:v:28:y:2017:i:07:n:s0129183117500887
    DOI: 10.1142/S0129183117500887
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    1. Li, Ze-Tao & Nie, Wei-Peng & Cai, Shi-Min & Zhao, Zhi-Dan & Zhou, Tao, 2023. "Exploring the topological characteristics of urban trip networks based on taxi trajectory data," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 609(C).
    2. Yang, Yu & He, Ze & Song, Zouying & Fu, Xin & Wang, Jianwei, 2018. "Investigation on structural and spatial characteristics of taxi trip trajectory network in Xi’an, China," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 506(C), pages 755-766.
    3. Nie, Wei-Peng & Cai, Shi-Min & Zhao, Zhi-Dan & Zhou, Tao, 2022. "Revealing mobility pattern of taxi movements with its travel trajectory," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 598(C).

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