Potential fields and fluctuation-dissipation relations derived from human flow in urban areas modeled by a network of electric circuits.

ABSTRACT: Owing to the big data the extension of physical laws on nonmaterial has seen numerous successes, and human mobility is one of the scientific frontier topics. Recent GPS technology has made it possible to trace detailed trajectories of millions of people, macroscopic approaches such as the gravity law for human flow between cities and microscopic approaches of individual origin-destination distributions are attracting much attention. However, we need a more general basic model with wide applicability to realize traffic forecasting and urban planning of metropolis fully utilizing the GPS data. Here, based on a novel idea of treating moving people as charged particles, we introduce a method to map macroscopic human flows into currents on an imaginary electric circuit defined over a metropolit

SUBMITTER: Shida Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9200729 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature