Wikibook: Transportation Geography and Network Science

In a more developmental stage than our previous wikibooks, Transportation Geography and Network Science was developed by myself and students in my class of the same name this past Spring. Clearly there are many topics yet to be developed here, and the book is nowhere near as complete as the others. The book welcomes your attention. I hope future classes may be able to develop this further. Many of the links in the Table of Contents below are classic wiki 'red links' (which don't show up here as red) indicating they are yet to be written. But if you have ideas, please incorporate them.

Introductory Material

• About

• Introduction

• What can Transportation Geography and Network Science teach each other?

Graphs

• Algorithms

• Graph theory

Characterizing Networks

• Characterizing Graphs (including Completeness)

• Accessibility

• Mobility

• Centrality

• Reliability

• Resilience

• Vulnerability

• Circuity

• Scaling and size

• Topology [1]

• Hierarchy

• Morphology

• Legibility

• Space syntax

• Network grammars

• Connectivity

Network topologies

• Random graphs [2]

• Small-world network [3]

• Scale-free network [4]

• Hub and spoke network

Network technologies

• Modal selection

• Road networks

• Public transit networks

• Freight rail networks

• Pipeline networks

• Electric grid

• Social networks

Flows and Walks

• Flows on Networks

• Spatial Interaction

• Agglomeration

Evolving Networks

• Network formation

• Network growth models

• Network design problem (NDP)

• Network adaptability

• Network flexibility

Networks and Travel Behavior

• Transportation networks and travel behavior

• Telecommunications networks and travel behavior

• Social networks and travel behavior

• Wayfinding

Networks and biology

• Networks and animal behavior

• Epidemics on networks

• Circulatory system

• Neuronal networks

Conclusions

• Conclusions