From the betweenness centrality in street networks to structural invariants in random planar graphs

A Kirkley, H Barbosa, M Barthelemy… - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
The betweenness centrality, a path-based global measure of flow, is a static predictor of
congestion and load on networks. Here we demonstrate that its statistical distribution is …

Understanding urban traffic-flow characteristics: a rethinking of betweenness centrality

S Gao, Y Wang, Y Gao, Y Liu - Environment and Planning B …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
In this study we estimate urban traffic flow using GPS-enabled taxi trajectory data in
Qingdao, China, and examine the capability of the betweenness centrality of the street …

A network centrality measure framework for analyzing urban traffic flow: A case study of Wuhan, China

S Zhao, P Zhao, Y Cui - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its …, 2017 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose an improved network centrality measure framework that takes into
account both the topological characteristics and the geometric properties of a road network …

A spatial interaction incorporated betweenness centrality measure

X Wu, W Cao, J Wang, Y Zhang, W Yang, Y Liu - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Betweenness centrality (BC) is widely used to identify critical nodes in a network by
exploring the ability of all nodes to act as intermediaries for information exchange. However …

Estimating pedestrian flows on street networks: revisiting the betweenness index

A Sevtsuk - Journal of the American Planning Association, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Problem, research strategy, and findings City governments and planners alike commonly
seek to increase pedestrian activity on city streets as part of broader sustainability …

A multiple regression approach for traffic flow estimation

L Pun, P Zhao, X Liu - IEEE access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traffic flow information is of great importance for transport planning and related research.
The conventional methods of automated data collection, such as annual average daily traffic …

Exploring the evolution of road centrality: A case study of Hong Kong from 1976 to 2018

T Lan, H Zhang, Z Li - Applied geography, 2022 - Elsevier
Centrality, which originated from sociology, has been one of the most powerful measures to
describe structural properties of road networks. Among existing road centrality studies, it is …

A variant of the current flow betweenness centrality and its application in urban networks

T Agryzkov, L Tortosa, JF Vicent - Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2019 - Elsevier
The current flow betweenness centrality is a useful tool to estimate traffic status in spatial
networks and, in general, to measure the intermediation of nodes in networks where the …

Optimized sensor network and multi-agent decision support for smart traffic light management

L Cruz-Piris, D Rivera, S Fernandez, I Marsa-Maestre - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
One of the biggest challenges in modern societies is to solve vehicular traffic problems.
Sensor networks in traffic environments have contributed to improving the decision-making …

System-wide organization of actin cytoskeleton determines organelle transport in hypocotyl plant cells

D Breuer, J Nowak, A Ivakov… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The actin cytoskeleton is an essential intracellular filamentous structure that underpins
cellular transport and cytoplasmic streaming in plant cells. However, the system-level …