Math Transit.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Callier, Viviane
- Source
- Scientific American. Oct2021, Vol. 325 Issue 4, p16-18. 3p. 1 Color Photograph.
- Subject
- *TRAVEL
*CITIES & towns
*CITY dwellers
*INFECTIOUS disease transmission
*URBAN planning
- Language
- ISSN
- 0036-8733
The article focuses on the results of a study of the predictability of urban travel patterns worldwide using a new visitation law. Topics discussed include the potential of the results to improve models of disease spread and city planning, discovery of an inverse square relation between the number of people in an urban location and the distance they traveled to reach the location, and tendency of urban dwellers to optimize their day according to lead author Markus Schlãpfer.