Analysis of the Chinese air route network as a complex network

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/21/2/028903

Abstract The air route network, which supports all the flight activities of the civil aviation, is the most fundamental infrastructure of air traffic management system. In this paper, we study the Chinese air route network (CARN) within the framework of complex networks. We find that CARN is a geographical network possessing exponential degree distribution, low clustering coefficient, large shortest path length and exponential spatial distance distribution that is obviously different from that of the Chinese airport network (CAN). Besides, via investigating the flight data from 2002 to 2010, we demonstrate that the topology structure of CARN is homogeneous, howbeit the distribution of flight flow on CARN is rather heterogeneous. In addition, the traffic on CARN keeps growing in an exponential form and the increasing speed of west China is remarkably larger than that of east China. Our work will be helpful to better understand Chinese air traffic systems.

Keywords: complex network Chinese air route network air transportation

Received: 24 August 2010
Revised: 13 October 2011
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PACS:	89.75.-k	(Complex systems)
	89.75.Fb	(Structures and organization in complex systems)
	89.40.Da
	89.40.Dd	(Air transporation)

Fund: Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2011CB707004), the Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 60921001), the National Key Technologies R & D Program of China (Grant No. 2011BAH24B02), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.

Corresponding Authors: Cao Xian-Bin,xbcao@buaa.edu.cn
E-mail: xbcao@buaa.edu.cn

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Cai Kai-Quan(蔡开泉), Zhang Jun(张军), Du Wen-Bo(杜文博), and Cao Xian-Bin(曹先彬) Analysis of the Chinese air route network as a complex network 2012 Chin. Phys. B 21 028903

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