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Open AccessElementary processes governing the evolution of road networks
Urbanisation is a fundamental phenomenon whose quantitative characterisation is still inadequate. We report here the empirical analysis of a unique data set regarding almost 200 years of evolution of the road ...
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Article
Co-evolution of Density and Topology in a Simple Model of City Formation
We study the influence that population density and the road network have on each others’ growth and evolution. We use a simple model of formation and evolution of city roads which reproduces the most important...
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Open AccessPredictability and epidemic pathways in global outbreaks of infectious diseases: the SARS case study
The global spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic has clearly shown the importance of considering the long-range transportation networks in the understanding of emerging diseases outbr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Traffic-Driven Model of the World Wide Web Graph
We propose a model for the World Wide Web graph that couples the topological growth with the traffic’s dynamical evolution. The model is based on a simple traffic-driven dynamics and generates weighted directe...