References and precedents Delta City belongs to a broader tradition of using network analysis to study transport systems, urban mobility and freight flows. Cytoscape has been applied to bus and metro networks, mobility studies based on urban data, and transport models in which stations, infrastructures and corridors become nodes and quantifiable relationships. The approach developed here builds on that tradition while shifting the analysis towards a speculative territory: keeping the same network structure stable in order to observe how different variables produce successive geographies of mobility, environmental impact and emissions intensity.
Li, Bangya( 2022). « Modeling and Characteristic Analysis of Bus and Subway Composite Transportation Network ». Frontiers in Economics and Management, 3( 3), 302 – 308. DOI: 10.6981 / FEM. 202203 _ 3( 3). 0034. Probably the closest precedent to Delta City. The study uses Cytoscape to construct a combined bus and metro network for Shanghai, treating stations as nodes and transport connections as edges. It analyses degree, clustering, shortest paths, betweenness and closeness in order to compare the individual networks with the combined transport system. Read the PDF: https:// www. fieam. org / download / fem-3-3-302-308. pdf
Mirzaee, Sahar & Wang, Qi( 2020). « Urban mobility and resilience: exploring Boston’ s urban mobility network through Twitter data ». Applied Network Science, 5, 75. This study constructs a mobility network for Boston by combining movements derived from geolocated data with socioeconomic characteristics. Cytoscape is used to identify structural motifs within the network as part of a broader investigation into connectivity, segregation and urban resilience. It is particularly relevant as a precedent for understanding a city through the relationships that emerge from mobility rather than exclusively through its physical geography. See the article: https:// link. springer. com / article / 10.1007 / s41109-020-00316-9
Sugrue, Dennis( 2021). Alternative Financing for Harbor Infrastructure using Big Data Analytics in the Great Lakes Waterway. University of Michigan, doctoral dissertation. Although concerned with freight transport rather than urban mobility, this work provides a useful methodological precedent. It develops transport and supply-chain network models for the Great Lakes and uses Cytoscape to represent facilities, corridors and flows quantified through tonnage. It therefore introduces quantitative mobility attributes into a relational structure, a logic closely related to the one employed in Delta City. Consult the thesis: https:// deepblue. lib. umich. edu / items / 28490493-c224-4021-aa16-21494ebfb830?
Cytoscape. js— « Tokyo Railways » demo. The Cytoscape ecosystem itself includes a demonstration based on Tokyo’ s railway network, where stations and their connections are represented as an interactive graph. It is not an academic study comparable to the previous examples, but it provides a direct illustration of Cytoscape technology applied to real transport infrastructure. Tokyo Railways demo: https:// app. unpkg. com / cytoscape % 403.33.3 / files / README. md? utm _ source = chatgpt. com
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