Drivers learn city-scale dynamic equilibrium

@article{Zhang2020DriversLC,
  title={Drivers learn city-scale dynamic equilibrium},
  author={Ruda Zhang and Roger G. Ghanem},
  journal={arXiv: Physics and Society},
  year={2020}
}
Understanding collective human behavior and dynamics at urban-scale has drawn broad interest in physics, engineering, and social sciences. Social physics often adopts a statistical perspective and treats individuals as interactive elementary units, while the economics perspective sees individuals as strategic decision makers. Here we provide a microscopic mechanism of city-scale dynamics, interpret the collective outcome in a thermodynamic framework, and verify its various implications… 
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