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PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS
Volume 376, Issue -, Pages 747-754Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.10.071
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In this paper, we present the empirical investigation results on the urban bus transport networks (BTNs) of four major cities in China. In BTN, nodes are bus stops. Two nodes are connected by all edge when the stops are serviced by a common bus route. The empirical results show that the degree distributions of BTNs take exponential function forms. Other two statistical properties of BTNs are also considered, and they are suggested as the distributions of so-called the number of stops in a bus route (represented by S) and the number of bus routes a stop joins (by R). The distributions of R also show exponential function forms, while the distributions of S follow asymmetric, unimodal functions. To explain these empirical results and attempt to simulate a possible evolution process of BTN, we introduce a model by which the analytic and numerical result obtained agrees well with the empirical facts. Finally, we also discuss some other possible evolution cases, where the degree distribution shows a power law or an interpolation between the power law and the exponential decay. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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