Small-world and the growing properties of the Chinese railway network

Cui Mei Liu; Jun Wei Li

doi:10.1007/s11467-007-0039-y

Small-world and the growing properties of the Chinese railway network

Cui Mei Liu, Jun Wei Li^*

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Abstract

By using the tools of statistical physics and recent investigations of the scaling properties of different complex networks, the structural and evolving properties of the Chinese railway network (CRN) is studied. It has been verified that the CRN has the same small-world properties of the Indian railway network (IRN). According to the class of small-world networks, we believe the CRN is a single scale. In addition, a novel result is obtained. Measurements on the CRN indicate that the rate at which nodes acquire links depends on the node's degree and follows a power law.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	364-367
Number of pages	4
Journal	Frontiers of Physics in China
Volume	2
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-007-0039-y
Publication status	Published - Jul 2007
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Complex networks
Railway networks
Small-world network
Statistic mechanism

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