Further We Travel the Faster We Go.
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 26863605.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0148913 and PMC identifier 4749241.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
The average travelling speed increases in a nontrivial manner with the travel distance. This leads to scaling-like relations on quite extended spatial scales, for all mobility modes taken together and also for a given mobility mode in part. We offer a wide range of experimental results, investigating and quantifying this universal effect and its measurable causes. The increasing travelling speed with the travel distance arises from the combined effects of: choosing the most appropriate travelling mode; the structure of the travel networks; the travel times lost in the main hubs, starting or target cities; and the speed limit of roads and vehicles.
Medical subject headings
- Travel