Connecting intercity mobility with urban welfare.

ABSTRACT: While significant effort has been devoted to understand the role of intraurban characteristics on sustainability and growth, much remains to be understood about the effect of interurban interactions and the role cities have in determining each other's urban welfare. Here we consider a global mobility network of population flows between cities as a proxy for the communication between these regions, and analyze how it correlates with socioeconomic indicators. We use several measures of centrality to rank cities according to their importance in the mobility network, finding PageRank to be the most effective measure for reflecting these prosperity indicators. Our analysis reveals that the characterization of the welfare of cities based on mobility information hinges on their corresponding deve

SUBMITTER: Mimar S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9802375 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature