Some speculations on fractals and railway networks

L. Benguigui

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1992, vol. 191, issue 1, 75-78

Abstract: We propose a simulation of the underground railway network of Paris which has an apparent fractal dimension equal to 1.8. We show that it is very likely that this value is due to a finite size effect and that the true dimension is 2. This means that caution is necessary in using the concept of fractal in geography.

Date: 1992
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(92)90508-N

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