Topological Analysis of Urban Street Networks

Bin Jiang and Christophe Claramunt
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Bin Jiang: Division of Geomatics, Department of Technology and Built Environment, University of Gävle, SE-801 76 Gävle, Sweden
Christophe Claramunt: Naval Academy Research Institute, BP 600, 29240, Brest Naval, France

Environment and Planning B, 2004, vol. 31, issue 1, 151-162

Abstract: The authors propose a topological analysis of large urban street networks based on a computational and functional graph representation. This representation gives a functional view in which vertices represent named streets and edges represent street intersections. A range of graph measures, including street connectivity, average path length, and clustering coefficient, are computed for structural analysis. In order to characterise different clustering degrees of streets in a street network they generalise the clustering coefficient to a k -clustering coefficient that takes into account k neighbours. Based on validations applied to three cities, the authors show that large urban street networks form small-world networks but exhibit no scale-free property.

Date: 2004
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