Statistical Characteristics and Community Analysis of Urban Road Networks

Wen-Long Shang, Yanyan Chen, Huibo Bi, Haoran Zhang, Changxi Ma and Washington Y. Ochieng

Complexity, 2020, vol. 2020, 1-21

Abstract:

Urban road networks are typical complex systems, which are crucial to our society and economy. In this study, topological characteristics of a number of urban road networks purely based on physical roads rather than routes of vehicles or buses are investigated in order to discover underlying unique structural features, particularly compared to other types of transport networks. Based on these topological indices, correlations between topological indices and small-worldness of urban road networks are also explored. The finding shows that there is no significant small-worldness for urban road networks, which is apparently different from other transport networks. Following this, community detection of urban road networks is conducted. The results reveal that communities and hierarchy of urban road networks tend to follow a general nature rule.

Date: 2020
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (14)

Downloads: (external link)
http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/8503/2020/6025821.pdf (application/pdf)
http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/8503/2020/6025821.xml (text/xml)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hin:complx:6025821

DOI: 10.1155/2020/6025821

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Complexity from Hindawi
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Mohamed Abdelhakeem ().