The emergence of transportation networks

Massimiliano Zanin (1) , Andrés Véjar (2)

1 INNAXIS - INNAXIS Foundation & Research Institute
2 CRAN - Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy

Transportation networks are clearly critical infrastructures in our society. From a social perspective they create social connectivity, and from an economic point of view they have an enormous impact on a nation's economy and the global economy. In this work, a new approach is proposed to understand the birth and growth of a transportation network. This network is created according to the emergent behavior of a set of agents, which are trying to move from one point in space to another point in space, interacting with other agents and globally aggregating their movements.

Mots clés: emergence; transportation; networks

Domaines: Système multi-agents [cs.MA]; Modélisation et simulation; Formation de Structures et Solitons [nlin.PS]

Massimiliano Zanin, Andrés Véjar. The emergence of transportation networks. European Conference on Complex Systems, ECCS09. Satellite Meeting EmergeNET3: Emergence and Networks, Sep 2009, Warwick, United Kingdom. pp.CDROM. ⟨hal-00421534⟩