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This paper proposes a novel generalization model for selecting characteristic streets in an urban street network. This model retains the central structure of a street network. It relies on a structural representation of a street network using graph principles where vertices represent named streets and links represent street intersections. Based on this representation, so-called connectivity graph, centrality measures are introduced to qualify the status of each individual vertex within the graph. We show that these measures can be used for characterizing the structural properties of an urban street network, and for the selection of important streets. The proposed approach is validated by a case study applied to a middle-sized Swedish city.
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Jiang, B., Claramunt, C. A Structural Approach to the Model Generalization of an Urban Street Network*. GeoInformatica 8, 157–171 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:GEIN.0000017746.44824.70
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