Small-world properties of the Indian Railway network

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31 December 2002

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/0208535

Abstract

Structural properties of the Indian Railway network is studied in the light of recent investigations of the scaling properties of different complex networks. Stations are considered as `nodes' and an arbitrary pair of stations is said to be connected by a `link' when at least one train stops at both stations. Rigorous analysis of the existing data shows that the Indian Railway network displays small-world properties. We define and estimate several other quantities associated with this network.

Keywords

INDIAN RAILWAY NETWORK
SMALL WORLD PROPERTIES
STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES
NETWORK STRUCTURAL
WORLD PROPERTIES
RAILWAY NETWORK

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Version 1, 2002-08-27, ArXiv
Version 2, 2002-12-31, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review E, 67 (3), 036106.

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