Multimode Dynamics of the Beijing Road Traffic System

The Beijing road traffic system, as a typical huge urban traffic system, provides a platform for analyzing the complex characteristics and the evolving mechanisms of urban traffic systems. Based on dynamic network theory, we construct the dynamic model of the Beijing road traffic system in which the dynamical properties are described completely. Furthermore, we come into the conclusion that urban traffic systems can be viewed as static networks, stochastic networks and complex networks at different system phases by analyzing the structural randomness. As well as, we demonstrate the evolving process of the Beijing road traffic network based on real traffic data, validate the stochastic characteristics and the scale-free property of the network at different phases

Authors:

• Zundong Zhang
• Limin Jia
• Xiaoliang Sun

Keywords:

• Dynamic Network Models
• Structural Randomness
• Scale-free Property
• Multi-mode character

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