A novel approach to model traffic on road segments of large-scale urban road networks

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A Novel Approach to Measure the Pattern of Urban Agglomeration Based on the Road Network

“…It indicates the level of urban agglomeration of a city by the aspects of economic prosperity which is clearly denoted by the evolution of road network [42]. Also, Hiller identified a strong relationship between the road network configuration and urban agglomeration as he mentioned that higher integrated places are potentials for the rapid urban agglomeration as they have a higher choice and integration compared to the other locations [30,43,44]. Moreover, the study considered road intersection points for the proposed percolation calculation, which are considered as the primary indicators of the interaction and urban agglomeration [24].…”

An Investigation of the Effects of New Bypass Roads on Build Form in Small Towns in Sri Lanka

“…In this step, accessibility was analysed using the network centrality assessment (NCA) [13] approach. The study computes the level of accessibility based on closeness and betweenness centrality parameters.…”

“…Betweenness captures (BC) "a special property in a particular road segment that does not act as either origin or destination but as a pass-by location… which is the number of shortest paths between two nodes that contain the given node" [14], [15]. CC captures the volume of trip attraction to a given road segment due to accessibility and BC captures the volume of pass-by trips which bypass the given road segment due to the intermediacy [13]. "BC performs a key role in explaining traffic volumes in locations where there are more pass-by trips such as regional roads that connect residential townships to a major city.…”

Network Centrality Analysis of Public Transport Systems: Developing a Strategic Planning Tool to Assess Passenger Attraction

“…Network centrality concepts were initially used in computer and social netowrk analysis. Recently, resercher utiliazed network centality to messure accessibility in spatial [2], [12]. Hiller [13] introduced the concept of "centrality as a process" which enable to idenfily the human movement in urban strees.…”

“…However, many researches argue that lack of data and cost-effective modeling in developing counties constrained the development of effective strategies to improve public transportation. Accordingly, there is a urgent need to develop cost effective modeling methods model passenger attraction locations and movements [2], [3] [4]. This study attempts to develop an alternative method model passenger attraction to the public transportation stations.…”