Abstract
The effectiveness of rapid rail transit system is analyzed using tools of complex network for the first time. We evaluated the effectiveness of the system in Beijing quantitatively from different perspectives, including descriptive statistics analysis, bridging property, centrality property, ability of connecting different part of the system and ability of disease spreading. The results showed that the public transport of Beijing does benefit from the rapid rail transit lines, and the benefit of different regions from RRTS is gradually decreased from the north to the south. The paper concluded with some policy suggestions regarding how to promote the system. This study offered significant insight that can help understand the public transportation better. The methodology can be easily applied to analyze other urban public systems, such as electricity grid, water system, to develop more livable cities.
Highlights
Data Availability Statement: Data are available from Github at: https://github.com/ ZhongYuanZhang/plos_one
Most of the works are about the topological characteristics of the transportation networks, including statistical analysis [8, 9], community structures [10], effectiveness [11], centrality [12, 13], traffic flow [14, 15], optimal solution to design problem [16], etc
One can see that: (1) The betweenness values of rapid rail transit stations are generally larger than their counterparts, indicating that RRTS is really important for bringing convenience to the transportation of citizens
Summary
Data Availability Statement: Data are available from Github at: https://github.com/ ZhongYuanZhang/plos_one. The world is full of complex systems, such as organizations with cooperation among individuals, the central nervous system with interactions among neurons in our brain, the ecosystem, etc. Most of the works are about the topological characteristics of the transportation networks, including statistical analysis [8, 9], community structures [10], effectiveness [11], centrality [12, 13], traffic flow [14, 15], optimal solution to design problem [16], etc. 5, we analyzed the effectiveness of Beijing RRTS from different perspectives, including bridging property, centrality property, ability of connecting different part of the system, ability of disease spreading.
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