Spatial Structural Characteristics of Chinese Railway Passenger Network Based on Complex Network Theory

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10.2991/citcs.2012.11How to use a DOI?

Keywords

raiway passenger transportation; spatial structure; complex network; China

Abstract

The railway network provides transport services for clients, it is very important for railway managers to analyzing the spatial structure of the network. This article analyzes the spatial structure of Chinese railway network with indicators of degree distribution, the clustering coefficient, the average path length and centralization. According to the definition of the small world network, the results illustrate that Chinese railway passenger network shows the characteristic of a small world network and is evolving to a scale-free network. What's more, the top level of the network has been formed.

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© 2012, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xuejing Gu
AU  - Dewei Li
AU  - Lu Qin
PY  - 2012/11
DA  - 2012/11
TI  - Spatial Structural Characteristics of Chinese Railway Passenger Network Based on Complex Network Theory
BT  - Proceedings of the 2012 National Conference on Information Technology and Computer Science
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 42
EP  - 45
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/citcs.2012.11
DO  - 10.2991/citcs.2012.11
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