Before revision:  Social physics often adopts a statistical perspective and treats individuals as interactive elementary units, while the economics perspective sees individuals as strategic decision makers . Here we provide a microscopic mechanism of city-scale dynamics, interpret the collective outcome in a thermodynamic framework, and verify its various implications empirically.
After revision:  Social physics often adopts a statistical perspective and treats individuals as interactive elementary units, while the economics perspective sees individuals as strategic decision makers . Here we provide a game-theoretic model of driver search strategy and learning dynamics, interpret the collective outcome in a thermodynamic framework, and verify its various implications empirically.