ABSTRACT Selection of urban road networks has always been the focus of map generalization. Previous research has shown that machine learning techniques effectively address multi-attribute weighting challenges. However, these studies primarily focus on supervised learning that requires large amounts of labeled data and scale-specific training, limiting the automation of road network selection processes. To address these challenges, this study proposes an automated selection of urban road network. The method improves the automation level of the selection process by fusing the PageRank algorithm and attribute importance metrics and considering both the structural and attribute information of roads. The proposed method was tested on four typical road network cases from China and compared with the single-attribute decision method, multi-attribute decision method and expert-selected results. The results show that this method can preserve the connectivity and density distribution of the source map.
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