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http://dx.doi.org/10.7470/jkst.2014.32.2.162

Analyzing Airport Network Characteristics Applied to the Structural Equivalence  

Oh, Sung Yeoul (Department of Aviation Research, The Korea Transport Institute)
Park, Yonghwa (Asia Pacific School of Logistics, Inha University)
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Journal of Korean Society of Transportation / v.32, no.2, 2014 , pp. 162-169 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study dealt with the airport network applying the Structural Equivalence which has used in the field of social science network. It analyzed the size of aviation market and trade exchanges. The results between blocks through the Convergence of Iteration Correlation are as follows; Block 1 (major hub airport) and Block 5 (Australian and New Zealand airports) have a strong relationship between other blocks. Block 3 (CIS region) and Block 7 (Malaysia and Indonesia) have been indicated as relatively low degree. The structural equivalence analysis can be grouped as a small number of blocks with large and complex networks and also presented a significant result according to the nature of the relationship between aviation market and the level of trade exchanges.
Keywords
air transport; airport network; block modeling; network science; structural equivalence;
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