Attack Vulnerability of Public Transport Networks

Christian von Ferber (), Taras Holovatch and Yurij Holovatch ()
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Christian von Ferber: Coventry Universit, Applied Mathematics Research Centre
Taras Holovatch: Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
Yurij Holovatch: Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

A chapter in Traffic and Granular Flow ’07, 2009, pp 721-731 from Springer

Abstract: Summary The behavior of complex networks under attack depends strongly on the specific attack scenario. Of special interest are scale-free networks, which are usually seen as robust under random failure or attack but appear to be especially vulnerable to targeted attacks. In a recent study of public transport networks of 14 major cities of the world we have shown that these networks may exhibit scale-free behaviour [Physica A 380, 585 (2007)]. Our further analysis, subject of this report, focuses on the effects that defunct or removed nodes have on the properties of public transport networks. Simulating different attack strategies we elaborate vulnerability criteria that allow to find minimal strategies with high impact on these systems.

Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77074-9_81

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