Towards design principles for optimal transport networks

• Published in: Physical review letters Vol. 104; no. 1; p. 018701
• Main Authors: Li, G, Reis, S D S, Moreira, A A, Havlin, S, Stanley, H E, Andrade, Jr, J S
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 08.01.2010
• Subjects: Aircraft; Models, Biological; Time Factors; Transportation - economics; United States; United States

We investigate the navigation problem in lattices with long-range connections and subject to a cost constraint. Our network is built from a regular two-dimensional (d=2) square lattice to be improved by adding long-range connections (shortcuts) with probability P(ij) approximately r(ij)(-alpha), whe...