Small-world properties of the Indian Railway network
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-07 v2
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.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0208535,
title = {Small-world properties of the Indian Railway network},
author = {Parongama Sen and Subinay Dasgupta and Arnab Chatterjee and P. A. Sreeram and G. Mukherjee and S. S. Manna},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0208535},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, 7 figures. To be published in Phys. Rev. E