The topological patterns of urban street networks : Exploring the topological patterns of urban street networks from analytical and visual perspectives

ISBN-13: 9783639161731 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 80 str.

Yin Junjun

Opis

As the nature of geographic environment is a complexsystem, researches in this field are anticipated. Inparticular, the urban street networks as complexnetworks are brought forth in this study with help ofthe Geographic Information System (GIS). This bookexplored the topological patterns of a sample of 40US urban street networks, from both analytical andvisual perspectives. The scale free properties forthe connectivity degree and length of the urbanstreets networks were examined. Moreover, the newmethods based on Maximum Likelihood Estimationtogether with goodness-of-fit test were performed, inorder to brought solid and accurate results.Simultaneously, thanks to the large networkvisualization tool (LaNet-vi), which is based onk-core decomposition algorithm, the topologicalnetworks of the urban streets were able to bepresented visually. With help of the platform fromGIS, the spatial information can be successfullyretrieved to offer more meaningful visualizationeffects.

O autorze

Currently, a PhD student in the Digital Media Center of the
Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland. I received the Master
degree in Geomatics from the University of Gävle, Sweden and the
Bachelor degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of
Electronic Science and Technology of China.