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Topological Analysis of Urban Street Networks

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  • Bin Jiang

    (Division of Geomatics, Department of Technology and Built Environment, University of Gävle, SE-801 76 Gävle, Sweden)

  • Christophe Claramunt

    (Naval Academy Research Institute, BP 600, 29240, Brest Naval, France)

Abstract

The authors propose a topological analysis of large urban street networks based on a computational and functional graph representation. This representation gives a functional view in which vertices represent named streets and edges represent street intersections. A range of graph measures, including street connectivity, average path length, and clustering coefficient, are computed for structural analysis. In order to characterise different clustering degrees of streets in a street network they generalise the clustering coefficient to a k -clustering coefficient that takes into account k neighbours. Based on validations applied to three cities, the authors show that large urban street networks form small-world networks but exhibit no scale-free property.

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  • Bin Jiang & Christophe Claramunt, 2004. "Topological Analysis of Urban Street Networks," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 31(1), pages 151-162, February.
  • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirb:v:31:y:2004:i:1:p:151-162
    DOI: 10.1068/b306
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    1. Boeing, Geoff, 2019. "Street Network Models and Measures for Every U.S. City, County, Urbanized Area, Census Tract, and Zillow-Defined Neighborhood," SocArXiv 7fxjz, Center for Open Science.
    2. Boeing, Geoff, 2017. "OSMnx: New Methods for Acquiring, Constructing, Analyzing, and Visualizing Complex Street Networks," SocArXiv q86sd, Center for Open Science.
    3. Scarinci, Riccardo & Zanarini, Alessandro & Bierlaire, Michel, 2019. "Electrification of urban mobility: The case of catenary-free buses," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 80(C), pages 39-48.
    4. Han Yue & Xinyan Zhu, 2019. "Exploring the Relationship between Urban Vitality and Street Centrality Based on Social Network Review Data in Wuhan, China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(16), pages 1-19, August.
    5. Boeing, Geoff, 2017. "Methods and Measures for Analyzing Complex Street Networks and Urban Form," SocArXiv 93h82, Center for Open Science.

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