Network Structure and City Size

David Levinson

No 94, Working Papers from University of Minnesota: Nexus Research Group

Abstract: Network structure varies across cities. This variation may yield important knowledge about how the internal structure of the city affects its performance. This paper systematically com- pares a set of surface transportation network structure variables (connectivity, hierarchy, circuity, treeness, entropy, accessibility) across the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the United States. It finds most of these measures vary with city size. A set of scaling parameters are discovered to show how network size and structure vary with city size. These results suggest that larger cities are physically more inter-connected.

Keywords: Connectivity; Network Structure; Transportation Geography; Network Science; City Size; Scaling Rules (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D85 R14 R41 R42 R48 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo, nep-net and nep-ure
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Published in PLoS One 7(1): e29721

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