The Small-world Hierarchical Modularity of Urban Subway Networks
We present the empirical investigation results on the urban subway networks in China, the empirical results show that all the urban subway networks have high clustering coefficient and small character path length, which exhibit small-world behavior, otherwise, these networks are hierarchically organized by some motifs, which are all the globally coupled networks. To explain these results, we introduce a small-world hierarchical model which is in good agreement with the empirical results, in addition, this model can explain the evolutionary procedure of other networks, such as the urban bus transport networks or the film actor networks.
complex networks urban subway network small-world motif
Yimin Ding Zhou Ding
Faculty of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062,China School of Business Administration, south China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640,China
国际会议
太原
英文
427-431
2010-10-22（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）