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SOE: Fachverband Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme
SOE 10: Traffic Dynamics, Urban and Regional Systems I
SOE 10.5: Talk
Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 16:00–16:15, ZEU 260
Does unorganized outperform organized public transport? — •Kush Mohan Mittal1, Malte Schröder1, and Marc Timme1,2 — 1Chair for Network Dynamics, Institute of Theoretical Physics & Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed), TU Dresden — 2Lakeside Labs, Klagenfurt, Austria
Organized public transport is commonly assumed to be more efficient compared to unorganized or self-organized mobility services that often prevail in the Global South. Here, we analyze OpenStreetMap route data from a total of 4500 routes of both organized and unorganized public transport services in more than 40 cities across the globe. Dividing bus routes into smaller segments and comparing their length to the shortest path distance between the segments endpoints, we find that segments more central in a route consistently exhibit substantially less detour than those towards the ends of the route. This non-homogeneous detour distribution occurs universally, irrespective of whether a city is dominated by organized or unorganized transport. These structural properties of the routes have significant implications for the attractiveness of public transport, as people living in the outskirts at the end of the routes typically both have overall longer trips and experience more (relative) detours than people living in the city center. Intriguingly, we provide quantitative evidence that decentrally self-organized transport routes typically exhibit less heterogeneity and at the same time achieve smaller overall detours. Moreover, they may also outperform organized transport in terms of social accessibility and route interconnectivity.