Network Analysis of Commuting Flows: A Comparative Static Approach to German Data

Networks and Spatial Economics - Tập 7 - Trang 315-331 - 2007
Roberto Patuelli1, Aura Reggiani2, Sean P. Gorman3, Peter Nijkamp1, Franz-Josef Bade4
1Department of Spatial Economics, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2Department of Economics, Faculty of Statistics, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
3School of Public Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, USA
4Faculty for Spatial Planning, University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

Tóm tắt

The analysis of complex networks has recently received considerable attention. The work by Albert and Barabási presented a research challenge to network analysis, that is, growth of the network. The present paper offers a network analysis of the spatial commuting network in Germany. First, we study the spatial evolution of the commuting network over time. Secondly, we compare two spatial interaction model (SIM) specifications, in order to replicate the actual network structure. Our findings suggest that the commuting network appeared to become more dense and clustered, while the SIMs seem to require more sophisticated specifications, in order to replicate such a connectivity structure.

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