Modeling the Morphology of the Intercity Highway Network
https://doi.org/10.31857/S2587556621010118
Abstract
Many aspects of the functioning of the transport network and its impact on the territory socioeconomic development depend significantly on transport network morphology. In particular, the network morphological features are the basis for network effects, which can lead to significant changes in transportation costs (both downward and upward) with minor modifications of the network. The article is devoted to the analysis of factors that are most important for intercity transport network morphology and mathematical description of the mechanisms of their influence. It is shown that the key factor is the location of network vertices in space. Also, a two-parameter family of models is proposed for generating realistic networks based only on information about their vertices spatial location. The proposed model implementation is demonstrated on the example of the intercity highway network of Belarus. Optimal parameter values were selected for this network. It is shown that the resulting model is close enough to the original network.
Keywords
transport network,
transport network morphology,
transport network model,
growth factors of the transport network,
highway network of Belarus
Supporting agencies: The work was conducted in accordance with the research plan of Ural State University of Railway Transport (project no. АААА-А20-120042190035-7)
About the Author
A. V. Martynenko
Ural State University of Railway Transport; Institute of Economics, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Ekaterinburg
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Martynenko A.V. Modeling the Morphology of the Intercity Highway Network. Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya. 2021;85(1):39-48. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31857/S2587556621010118
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