User-based representation of time-resolved multimodal public transportation networks

Laura Alessandretti, Márton Karsai, Laetitia Gauvin

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

Multimodal transportation systems, with several coexisting services like bus, tram and metro, can be represented as time-resolved multilayer networks where the different transportation modes connecting the same set of nodes are associated with distinct network layers. Their quantitative description became possible recently due to openly accessible datasets describing the geo-localized transportation dynamics of large urban areas. Advancements call for novel analytics, which combines earlier established methods and exploits the inherent complexity of the data. Here, we provide a novel user-based representation of public transportation systems, which combines representations, accounting for the presence of multiple lines and reducing the effect of spatial embeddedness, while considering the total travel time, its variability across the schedule, and taking into account the number of transfers necessary. After the adjustment of earlier techniques to the novel representation framework, we analyse the public transportation systems of several French municipal areas and identify hidden patterns of privileged connections. Furthermore, we study their efficiency as compared to the commuting flow. The proposed representation could help to enhance resilience of local transportation systems to provide better design policies for future developments.

Original languageEnglish
JournalRoyal Society Open Science
Volume3
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - 13 Jul 2016
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Human dynamics
  • Multimodal networks
  • Public transportation

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