Highlights The international air transportation country network is scale-free/small-world. The country network gears towards a symmetric, transitive closure. Top 5 Critical countries: US, France, Great Britain, Australia, and South Africa. Structural and functional criticality of countries are highly correlated. Criticality of a country is correlated to the GDP.

    Abstract In this research, we analyze the evolution of the international air transportation country network from 2002 to 2013 with two perspectives: The network’s physical topology and the functional network with traffic information. Our analysis shows that the network is scale-free and has the small-world property. The evolution of triadic properties suggests that the network gears towards symmetric, transitive closure. We find that United States, Great Britain, and France are critical from both perspectives; Surprisingly, South Africa is particularly critical from topological point of view. Furthermore, topological and functional criticality are highly correlated to the GDP of a country.


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    Title :

    Evolution of the international air transportation country network from 2002 to 2013


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    Publication date :

    2015-08-06


    Size :

    24 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English