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A universal model of commuting networks

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We test a recently proposed model of commuting networks on 80 case studies from different regions of the world (Europe and United-States) and with geographic units of different sizes (municipality, county, region). The model takes as input the number of commuters coming in and out of each geographic unit and generates the matrix of commuting flows betwen the geographic units. We show that the single parameter of the model, which rules the compromise between the influence of the distance and job opportunities, follows a universal law that depends only on the average surface of the geographic units. We verified that the law derived from a part of the case studies yields accurate results on other case studies. We also show that our model significantly outperforms the two other approaches proposing a universal commuting model (Balcan et al. (2009); Simini et al. (2012)), particularly when the geographic units are small (e.g. municipalities).
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hal-00681772 , version 1 (22-03-2012)
hal-00681772 , version 2 (11-05-2015)

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Maxime Lenormand, Sylvie Huet, Floriana Gargiulo, Guillaume Deffuant. A universal model of commuting networks. PLoS ONE, 2012, 7 (10), pp.e45985. ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0045985⟩. ⟨hal-00681772v2⟩
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