Urban congestion behaves like a thermodynamic phase transition with an effective temperature that quantifies city infrastructure heterogeneity and predicts resilience to demand increases.
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Thermodynamic phase transitions reveal the resilience structure of urban traffic congestion
Urban congestion behaves like a thermodynamic phase transition with an effective temperature that quantifies city infrastructure heterogeneity and predicts resilience to demand increases.