Samaniego, Horacio; Moses, Melanie E. - In: The Journal of Transport and Land Use 1 (2008) 1, pp. 21-39
We propose a statistical approach to determine the features of urban road networks affecting accessibility. Our approach is inspired by metabolic scaling theory (MST) in biology (West et al. 1997). <p> We study the structure of road networks across 425 cities of different sizes in the USA. We show...</p>