• DocumentCode
    3256634
  • Title

    Study on the statistical properties of China´s Railway Network

  • Author

    Lihua, Huang ; Wenguo, Weng ; Shunjiang, Ni

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Eng. Phys., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    8-10 Aug. 2011
  • Firstpage
    21
  • Lastpage
    24
  • Abstract
    China´s Railway Network with train and passenger flows is studied. The train network displays small-world properties: a large clustering coefficient (0.671315), a short average path length (2.36714), and exponentially decaying cumulative degree distributions. No significant assortative mixing is found. As for the passenger network, the distributions of the passenger flow, including weight of edges and strength of nodes, follow power law, indicating scale-free characteristics. The weighted clustering coefficient is smaller (0.371953). The joint distributions of the strength and the degree of nodes follow power law, showing strong correlation between the passenger flow and the train flow.
  • Keywords
    complex networks; pattern clustering; railways; statistical analysis; China railway network; clustering coefficient; cumulative degree distributions; joint distributions; passenger flow; passenger network; scale-free characteristics; statistical properties; train flow; Collaboration; Correlation; Joints; Nickel; Rail transportation; USA Councils; complex networks; passenger flow; railway network; scale-free; small-world;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Emergency Management and Management Sciences (ICEMMS), 2011 2nd IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Beijing
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-9665-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICEMMS.2011.6015609
  • Filename
    6015609