Analysis of the Chinese railway system as a complex network

Wei Wang, Kaiquan Cai, Wenbo Du, Xin Wu, Tong, Lu (Carol), Xi Zhu and Xianbin Cao

Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2020, vol. 130, issue C

Abstract: This paper conducts a series of complex network analyses on the Chinese railway network (CRN), where nodes represent cities with rail stations and edges denote connections defined by transit services between cities. CRN is a small-world network with two-regime power-law distributions. This paper also encapsulates CRN into a multi-layer infrastructure with a core-periphery structure via the ‘‘weighted k-core decomposition” method. The reasonability of cities contained in the core layer is generally consistent with the hub set identified by the gravity model. The core-periphery structure is also benchmarked by urban agglomeration development planning in China.

Keywords: Chinese railway network; Complex network; Weighted k-core decomposition; Urban agglomeration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2019.109408

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