Evolution of the international air transportation country network from 2002 to 2013 |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, No. 37 Xueyuan Road, 100191 Beijing, China;2. Department of Computer Science, Humboldt-University Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany;1. School of Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China;2. School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China;3. Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, University of Sydney, Australia;1. Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, 2053 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2, Canada;2. School of Commerce, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia;3. China Academy of Financial Research, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China;1. Transportation Management College, Dalian Maritime University, 1 Linghai Road, Ganjingzi District, Dalian, 116026, China;2. Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Urban ITS, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210008, China;3. School of Automotive Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, 1 Linggong Road, Ganjingzi District, Dalian, 116026, China;4. China Academy of Civil Aviation Science and Technology, 24 Beilijia Xibahe, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100028, China;5. Urban Planning Group, Department of the Built Environment, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, PO Box 513, Vertigo 8.16, 5600MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands;1. CITTA, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Coimbra, Portugal;2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA;1. Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China;2. China Communications and Transportation Association, Beijing 100053, China;3. Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA;4. School of Urban and Environmental Studies, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming, Yunnan 650221, China |
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| Abstract: | In this research, we analyze the evolution of the international air transportation country network from 2002 to 2013 with two perspectives: The network’s physical topology and the functional network with traffic information. Our analysis shows that the network is scale-free and has the small-world property. The evolution of triadic properties suggests that the network gears towards symmetric, transitive closure. We find that United States, Great Britain, and France are critical from both perspectives; Surprisingly, South Africa is particularly critical from topological point of view. Furthermore, topological and functional criticality are highly correlated to the GDP of a country. |
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| Keywords: | Air transportation Country network Network evolution Criticality |
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