The map of a city’s streets constitutes a particular case of spatial complex network. However a city is not limited to its topology: it is above all a geometrical object whose particularity is to organize into short and long axes called streets. In this article we present and discuss two algorithms aiming at recovering the notion of street from a graph representation of a city. Then we show tha...

This paper proposes a novel generalisation model for selecting characteristic streets in an urban street network. This model retains the central structure of a street network. It relies on a structural representation of a street network using graph principles where vertices represent named streets and links represent street intersections. Based on this representation, so-called connectivity gra...

The increasing burden on South African road networks necessitates sustainable solutions that conclude their spatial configuration and arrangement. A deeper understanding of the existing network’s organisation is, therefore, required. This study evaluates structural design in Kimberley, Africa, using network science open-source OpenStreetMap data. Nonplanar-directed multigraphs for Kimberley are...