title: Analysis of Road Network Pattern Considering Population Distribution and Central Business District.
abstract: This paper proposes a road network growing model with the consideration of population distribution and central business district (CBD) attraction. In the model, the relative neighborhood graph (RNG) is introduced as the connection mechanism to capture the characteristics of road network topology. The simulation experiment is set up to illustrate the effects of population distribution and CBD attraction on the characteristics of road network. Moreover, several topological attributes of road network is evaluated by using coverage, circuitness, treeness and total length in the experiment. Finally, the suggested model is verified in the simulation of China and Beijing Highway networks.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China.|School of Traffic and Transportation, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Fangxia
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Huijun
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Jianjun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: School of Traffic and Transportation, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Ziyou
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Ronghui
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D000068476:Beijing; D002947:Cities; D002958:City Planning; D003710:Demography; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical