Geodesics and flows in a Poissonian city (Q549856)

The author studies the geometry of fluctuations of near-geodesics in the network generated by a stationary Poisson line process. He introduces the notion of a ``Poissonian city'' which makes connections between pairs of nodes using simple ``no-overshoot'' paths. He computes asymptotics for geometric features and the random variation in length for near-geodesic paths. He shows that these paths traverse the network with an order of efficiency comparable to that of true network geodesics. He computes mean characteristics and the limiting behavior at the centre for a natural network flow. He draws comparisons with similar network flows in a city based on a comparable rectilinear grid.