Source: adapted from A. Bertaud (2001) Metropolis: A Measure of the Spatial Organization of 7 Large Cities.

Possible Urban Movement Patterns

Cities can structurally classified as polycentric (more common) or monocentric and major flows as organized or disorganized (more common). Cities with a higher level of reliance on public transit tend to be monocentric and have a higher level of organized flows while cities depending more on the automobile tend to be polycentric and have a more disorganized structure of flows.

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