Li, W.; Cai, X. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 382 (2007) 2, pp. 693-703
We present a detailed, empirical analysis of the statistical properties of the China Railway Network (CRN) consisting of 3915 nodes (train stations) and 22259 edges (railways). Based on this, CRN displays two explicit features already observed in numerous real-world and artificial networks. One...