The average travelling speed increases in a nontrivial manner with the travel distance. This leads to scaling-like relations on quite extended spatial scales, for all mobility modes taken together and also for a given mobility mode in part. We offer a wide range of experimental results, investigating and quantifying this universal effect and its measurable causes. The increasing travelling speed with the travel distance arises from the combined effects of: choosing the most appropriate travelling mode; the structure of the travel networks; the travel times lost in the main hubs, starting or target cities; and the speed limit of roads and vehicles.
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Varga, L., Kovács, A., Tóth, G., Papp, I., & Néda, Z. (2016). Further we travel the faster we go. PLoS ONE, 11(2). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0148913
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