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High-speed physical transportations such as air and high-speed railway (HSR) can dramatically decrease geographic and temporal constraints of moving people for various purposes. Remarkably, the complex networks approach has explained the appearance of emergent phenomena in many systems composed by a large set of interacting elements. In this paper we present a review of the literature related to the application of complex network theory to the air and HSR transportation system at different spatial and temporal scales. Moreover, both high-speed transportation networks present different configurations regarding the weight for the edges in a weighted network. Therefore, the differences between weighted networks also need to be clarified.
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In Europe for instance, European low-cost airlines have long kept out of GDS to avoid extra costs.
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We would like to thank the editors and reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions. This research is sponsored by Shanghai Pujiang Program(2019PJC034). We also would like to thank the financial support from Shanghai Philosophy and Social Science Project (2019ECK011).
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Yang, H., Li, Y. (2020). Complex Network Theory on High-Speed Transportation Systems. In: Ye, X., Lin, H. (eds) Spatial Synthesis. Human Dynamics in Smart Cities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52734-1_11
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