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Several Multiplexes in the Same City: The Role of Socioeconomic Differences in Urban Mobility

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Interconnected Networks

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In this work we analyze the architecture of real urban mobility networks from the multiplex perspective. In particular, based on empirical data about the mobility patterns in the cities of Bogotá and Medellín, each city is represented by six multiplex networks, each one representing the origin-destination trips performed by a subset of the population corresponding to a particular socioeconomic status. The nodes of each multiplex are the different urban locations whereas links represent the existence of a trip from one node (origin) to another (destination). On the other hand, the different layers of each multiplex correspond to the different existing transportation modes. By exploiting the characterization of multiplex transportation networks combining different transportation modes, we aim at characterizing the mobility patterns of each subset of the population. Our results show that the socioeconomic characteristics of the population have an extraordinary impact in the layer organization of these multiplex systems.

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Acknowledgements

We acknowledge financial support from the European Commission through FET IP projects MULTIPLEX (Grant No. 317532) and PLEXMATH (Grant No. 317614), from the Spanish MINECO under projects FIS2011-25167 and FIS2012-38266-C02-01, from the Departamento de Industria e Innovación del Gobierno de Aragón and Fondo Social Europeo (Grupo FENOL), and from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia under grants HERMES 19010 and HERMES 16007. JGG is supported by the Spanish MINECO through the Ramón y Cajal program. AC acknowledge the financial support of SNSF through the project CRSII2_147609. We thank Area Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá, in Medellín, and Secretaría Distrital de Movilidad, in Bogotá, for the Origin-Destination Surveys Datasets.

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  1. Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación y de la Decisión, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia

    Laura Lotero

  2. Laboratoire de Biophysique Statistique, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Alessio Cardillo

  3. Instituto de Biocomputación y Física de Sistemas Complejos, Universidad de Zaragoza, E-50018, Zaragoza, Spain

    Alessio Cardillo & Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes

  4. Departamento de Física, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

    Rafael Hurtado

  5. Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Zaragoza, E-50009, Zaragoza, Spain

    Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes

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Lotero, L., Cardillo, A., Hurtado, R., Gómez-Gardeñes, J. (2016). Several Multiplexes in the Same City: The Role of Socioeconomic Differences in Urban Mobility. In: Garas, A. (eds) Interconnected Networks. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23947-7_9

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