Evolution of the international air transportation country network from 2002 to 2013

Sebastian Wandelt and Xiaoqian Sun

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2015, vol. 82, issue C, 55-78

Abstract: In this research, we analyze the evolution of the international air transportation country network from 2002 to 2013 with two perspectives: The network’s physical topology and the functional network with traffic information. Our analysis shows that the network is scale-free and has the small-world property. The evolution of triadic properties suggests that the network gears towards symmetric, transitive closure. We find that United States, Great Britain, and France are critical from both perspectives; Surprisingly, South Africa is particularly critical from topological point of view. Furthermore, topological and functional criticality are highly correlated to the GDP of a country.

Keywords: Air transportation; Country network; Network evolution; Criticality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2015.08.002

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