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On the Relationship between City Mobility and Blocks Uniformity
Eric Tokuda, Cesar Comin (ORCID), Roberto Cesar, Luciano Costa
The 5th International Electronic Conference on Entropy and Its Applications, 1: 22. . DOI: 10.3390/ecea-5-06669.
Abstract
The spatial organization and the topological organization of cities have a great influence on the lives of their inhabitants, including mobility efficiency. Entropy has been often adopted for the characterization of diverse natural and human-made systems and structures. In this work, we apply the exponential of entropy (evenness) to characterize the uniformity of city blocks. It is suggested that this measurement is related to several properties of real cities, such as mobility. We consider several real-world cities, from which the logarithm of the average shortest path length is also calculated and compared with the evenness of the city blocks. Several interesting results have been found, as discussed in the article.
Citation
@article{Tokuda2019On,
title = {On the Relationship between City Mobility and Blocks Uniformity},
author = {Tokuda, Eric and Comin, Cesar and Cesar, Roberto and Costa, Luciano},
journal = {The 5th International Electronic Conference on Entropy and Its Applications},
year = {2019},
volume = {1},
number = {},
pages = {22},
doi = {10.3390/ecea-5-06669}
}