A topological phase transition between small-worlds and fractal scaling in urban railway transportation networks?

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 388, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 4658-4668

  Doménech, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fractal; Phase transition; Small worlds; Transportation systems

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS; URBAN GROWTH;

ANALYSIS OF DATA; FRACTAL SCALING; SECOND-ORDER PHASE TRANSITION; SIMILAR PATTERN; SMALL WORLDS; TOPOLOGICAL PHASE; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM; URBAN TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS;

URBAN TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 68649091034     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2009.07.036     Document Type: Article

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