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Volume 108, Number 5, December 2014
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| Article Number | 58007 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/108/58007 | |
| Published online | 10 December 2014 | |
Scaling and gender behavior of road accidental dynamics
1 School of Information Engineering, Nanchang Hangkong University - Nanchang 330063, PRC
2 School of Information Engineering, Ningbo Dahongying University - Ningbo, 315175, PRC
3 School of Finance and Coordinated Innovation Center of Wealth Management and Quantitative Investment, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics - Hangzhou 310018, PRC
4 School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University - Beijing 100084, PRC
Received: 6 June 2014
Accepted: 19 November 2014
The probability distribution of the time intervals between two consecutive accidents is investigated, based on the road accidental records of the Great Britain. A universal description is obtained for different roads, by rescaling the probability distribution and time intervals. The scaling curve is found to deviate from the Gaussian distribution, but it is well fitted by a stretched exponential function. Long-range time correlation is revealed for the interevent series. Moreover, gender similarity is found for the small accidental intervals, while for the large intervals, the female drivers are observed to present a higher probability than the male drivers.
PACS: 89.75.-k – Complex systems / 89.65.-s – Social and economic systems
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