Discerning electricity consumption patterns from urban allometric scaling
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Data publicació2010-02-22
EditorIEEE Computer Society Publications
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Abstract
Allometric scaling relations are characteristic of
all living organisms. Metabolic and heart rates, lifespan and
many other physiological properties vary with body mass in
systematic and interrelated ways, which usually take the form
of a power law. Scaling laws have been recently observed also
in the metabolic rate of a particular kind of living system: the
city. Scaling exponents of urban indicators present a remarkable
variability, mainly associated with fundamentally different underlying
dynamics. In this paper allometric scaling is used to detect
dissimilar behaviors in one particularly important urban indicator:
electricity consumption. Different scaling relations between
electricity consumption and economical and social sectors found
in southern Spain region of Andaluc´ıa, indicate variability in
these sectors’ basal energy consumption processes. The usefulness
of these findings for urban modeling is finally outlined and some
practical implications are suggested.
CitacióHorta Bernús, R.; Rosas Casals, M.; Valverde Castillo, S. Discerning electricity consumption patterns from urban allometric scaling. A: Complexity in Engineering. "2010 Complexity in Engineering". IEEE Computer Society Publications, 2010, ISBN 13:978-0-7695-3974-4. DOI 10.1109/COMPENG.2010.29.
ISBN13:978-0-7695-3974-4
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