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creators_name: De Montis, Andrea
creators_name: Barthélemy, Marc
creators_name: Chessa, Alessandro
creators_name: Vespignani, Alessandro
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creators_id: alessandro.chessa@imtlucca.it
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title: The structure of interurban traffic: a weighted network analysis
ispublished: pub
subjects: QC
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: none
keywords: PACS numbers: 89.75.-k, -87.23.Ge, 05.40.-a
abstract: We study the structure of the network representing the interurban commuting traffic of the Sardinia region, Italy, which amounts to 375 municipalities and 1 600 000 inhabitants. We use a weighted network representation in which vertices correspond to towns and the edges correspond to the actual commuting flows among those towns. We characterize quantitatively both the topological and weighted properties of the resulting network. Interestingly, the statistical properties of the commuting traffic exhibit complex features and nontrivial relations with the underlying topology. We characterize quantitatively the traffic backbone among large cities and we give evidence for a very high heterogeneity of the commuter flows around large cities. We also discuss the interplay between the topological and dynamical properties of the network as well as their relation with sociodemographic variables such as population and monthly income. This analysis may be useful at various stages in environmental planning and provides analytical tools for a wide spectrum of applications ranging from impact evaluation to decision making and planning support. 
date: 2007
date_type: published
publication: Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design
volume: 34
number: 5
publisher: Pion
pagerange: 905-924
id_number: 10.1068/b32128
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0265-8135
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/b32128
related_url_url: http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0507106
citation:   De Montis, Andrea and Barthélemy, Marc and Chessa, Alessandro and Vespignani, Alessandro  The structure of interurban traffic: a weighted network analysis.  Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 34 (5).  pp. 905-924.  ISSN 0265-8135      (2007)