Multi-dimensional Urban Network Percolation

Juste Raimbault (1, 2, 3)

1 ISC-PIF - Institut des Systèmes Complexes - Paris Ile-de-France
2 Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL
3 GC (UMR_8504) - Géographie-cités

Network percolation has recently been proposed as a method to characterize the hierarchical structure of an urban system from the bottom-up. This paper proposes to extend urban network per-colation in a multi-dimensional way, to take into account both urban form (spatial distribution of population) and urban functions (here as properties of transportation networks). The method is applied to the European urban system to reconstruct endogenous urban regions. The variable parametrization allows to consider patterns of optimization for two stylized contradictory sustainability indicators (economic performance and greenhouse gases emissions). This suggests a customizable spatial design of policies to develop sustainable territories.

Mots clés: Road network; Multi-dimensional percolation; European urban system; Mega-city region; ACL; PARIS team

Domaines: Géographie; Système multi-agents [cs.MA]; Mathématique discrète [cs.DM]; Machine Learning [stat.ML]; Automates cellulaires et gaz sur réseau [nlin.CG]; Dynamique Chaotique [nlin.CD]; Adaptation et Systèmes auto-organisés [nlin.AO]; Finance quantitative [q-fin.CP]; Biodiversité et Ecologie

Juste Raimbault. Multi-dimensional Urban Network Percolation. Journal of Interdisciplinary Methodologies and Issues in Science, 2019, Analysis of networks and graphs, ⟨10.18713/JIMIS-180719-5-5⟩. ⟨halshs-02361292⟩