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Dynamical efficiency for multimodal time-varying transportation networks.
Leonardo Bellocchi1, Vito Latora2,3, Nikolas Geroliminis4
1Urban Transport Systems Laboratory (LUTS), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), GC C2 390, Station 18, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland.
This study introduces "dynamical efficiency" to identify traffic congestion hotspots in urban networks. This new measure helps visualize congestion evolution and assess travel choices in complex transportation systems.
Area of Science:
- Complex Systems Science
- Network Science
- Urban Mobility Analysis
Background:
- Urban transportation networks are dynamic systems prone to congestion due to flow redistribution.
- Existing network measures often provide a myopic view, focusing on individual segments rather than system-wide conditions.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop novel network measures for detecting critical congestion zones and bottlenecks in urban transportation systems.
- To quantify the impact of congestion on travel time and assess the richness of traveler choices.
Main Methods:
- Proposed a path-based measure, 'dynamical efficiency,' calculating travel time differences under congested and free-flow conditions.
- Extended the measure to multilayer networks, introducing a centrality index for inter-modal junctions.
- Defined the 'dilemma factor' to relate travel time increase to the number of available transportation alternatives.
Main Results:
- Dynamical efficiency effectively detects and visualizes congestion seeds and their temporal evolution as clusters.
- The multilayer centrality measure quantifies the importance of inter-modal connections.
- Macroscopic relationships were found between extra travel time, alternative routes, and congestion levels.
Conclusions:
- Dynamical efficiency offers a robust method for analyzing urban traffic congestion and network performance.
- The developed measures provide valuable insights into urban mobility, aiding in the planning and management of transportation systems.
- The study demonstrates the applicability of these methods using real-world traffic data from a megacity.

