China Safety Science Journal ›› 2022, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (6): 178-185.doi: 10.16265/j.cnki.issn1003-3033.2022.06.1492

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Analysis on topological characteristics and robustness of complex network of railway express freight transportation

MA Liang1,2,3(), HU Chenhan4, CHEN Guangwei5   

  1. 1 School of Information Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu Sichuan 611756, China
    2 The Center of National Railway Intelligent Transportation System Engineering and Technology, Beijing 100081, China
    3 Sichuan Engineering Research Center of Train Operation Control Technology, Chengdu Sichuan 611756, China
    4 Institute of Computing Technologies, China Academy of Railway Sciences Corporation Limited, Beijing 100081, China
    5 China Railway Information Technology Group Corporation Limited, Beijing 100844, China
  • Received:2021-12-12 Revised:2022-03-15 Online:2022-06-28 Published:2022-12-28

Abstract:

In order to model and analyze performance of REFTN, method of modeling undirected and unweighted complex network of REFTN (UUCN-REFTN) in L-space, comprehensive importance evaluation index of nodes and network robustness analysis method considering node failure based on comprehensive importance indexes were proposed. Based on timetable and wagon-flow data, UUCN-REFTN was established and its topological characteristics and static robustness were analyzed. The results show that REFTN has typical small-world, scale-free and congeneric matching characteristics at present in China. Random failure of nodes has less impact on network robustness generally, and largest-comprehensive-importance attack makes it more vulnerable than largest-degree attack and largest-betweenness attack. When proportion of stations under largest-degree attack reaches 38%, the network will completely collapse.

Key words: railway express freight transportation network(REFTN), complex network(UUCN), robustness, small-world, scale-free