Including service information in a topological comparison of metro networks worldwide: A comparison of 51 metro networks worldwide using GTFS static data

Public transport (PT) plays a vital role in commuting billions of travellers in cities all over the world, providing a mode that is both sustainable and accessible. Metro networks are especially apt at this considering their high-capacity and high-speed operation in urban environments. Comparing different metro networks to one another is a...

A Geometric Classification of World Urban Road Networks

This article presents a method to uncover universal patterns and similarities in the urban road networks of the 80 most populated cities in the world. To that end, we used degree distribution, link length distribution, and intersection angle distribution as topological and geometric properties of road networks. Moreover, we used ISOMAP, a...

Spreading Processes over Adaptive Networks

The spreading process of diseases has been an important research topic for many years. It has profound effects on the development of human social behaviors. The underlying social network structure may change when individuals change their connection with other individuals in response to the epidemic. The classic susceptible-infected-susceptible ...

An improved approach for on-board distribution system robustness estimation in early-stage ship design

Distribution system robustness estimation is crucial in performing a substantiated trade-off in early-stage ship design. To improve the current robustness estimation, a maritime robustness approach (de Vos, 2018) is compared to and verified by a general network robustness approach (Van Mieghem, 2010). The first studied approach is verified by...

The Criticality of the European Multimodal Transportation Network: Multifaceted Investigation of the European Hinterland Transportation Network based on Its Network Structure

A nation’s main port is a crucial component that contributes to the economic development of a country. Therefore, the role of the port becomes more critical nowadays. However, due to the existing hub-and-spoke structure of the European multimodal transportation network, polarisation and regionalisation are visible in the network. The increasing...

Modelling Markovian epidemic and information diffusion over adaptive networks

Modelling the spread of contagious diseases among people has been a research topic for over a hundred years. However, the increase in computation power in the recent years allows for more advanced scientific models. The well-known susceptible-infected-susceptible model is used to describe the spreading of a disease among a group of people. This...

Integrating network science and public transport accessibility analysis for comparative assessment

Network science offers powerful concepts and methods for studying complex systems, such as public transport networks. However, many existing studies on complex network analysis of public transport networks were primarily motivated to test network science concepts using real-life networks. Consequently, important properties related to public...

Can passenger flow distribution be estimated solely based on network properties in public transport systems?

We present a pioneering investigation into the relation between passenger flow distribution and network properties in public transport systems. The methodology is designed in a reverse engineering fashion by utilizing passively measured passenger flow dynamics over the entire network. We quantify the properties of public transport networks using...

Analysis and planning of power grids: A network perspective

Electric power has become an essential part of daily life: we plug our electronic devices in, switch our lights on, and expect to have power. As the availability of power is usually taken for granted in modern societies, we mostly feel annoyed at its absence and perceive the importance of power during outages which have severe effects on the...

The Cut-size Property of Networks and Epidemics Processes

This master thesis focuses on the particular problem about the cut-size property of different networks. The scope of networks is from trivial network models (e.g., random graph) to real networks (e.g., Power grid network and Facebook network). The Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible (SIS) epidemic model can describe the spreading processes of...