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Multi-Scale Analysis of the European Airspace Using Network Community Detection

We show that the European airspace can be represented as a multi-scale traffic network whose nodes are airports, sectors, or navigation points and links are defined and weighted according to the traffic of flights between the nodes. By using a unique database of the air traffic in the European airsp...

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Autores principales: Gurtner, Gérald, Vitali, Stefania, Cipolla, Marco, Lillo, Fabrizio, Mantegna, Rosario Nunzio, Miccichè, Salvatore, Pozzi, Simone
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4014470/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24809991
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094414
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author Gurtner, Gérald
Vitali, Stefania
Cipolla, Marco
Lillo, Fabrizio
Mantegna, Rosario Nunzio
Miccichè, Salvatore
Pozzi, Simone
author_facet Gurtner, Gérald
Vitali, Stefania
Cipolla, Marco
Lillo, Fabrizio
Mantegna, Rosario Nunzio
Miccichè, Salvatore
Pozzi, Simone
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description We show that the European airspace can be represented as a multi-scale traffic network whose nodes are airports, sectors, or navigation points and links are defined and weighted according to the traffic of flights between the nodes. By using a unique database of the air traffic in the European airspace, we investigate the architecture of these networks with a special emphasis on their community structure. We propose that unsupervised network community detection algorithms can be used to monitor the current use of the airspace and improve it by guiding the design of new ones. Specifically, we compare the performance of several community detection algorithms, both with fixed and variable resolution, and also by using a null model which takes into account the spatial distance between nodes, and we discuss their ability to find communities that could be used to define new control units of the airspace.
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spelling pubmed-40144702014-05-14 Multi-Scale Analysis of the European Airspace Using Network Community Detection Gurtner, Gérald Vitali, Stefania Cipolla, Marco Lillo, Fabrizio Mantegna, Rosario Nunzio Miccichè, Salvatore Pozzi, Simone PLoS One Research Article We show that the European airspace can be represented as a multi-scale traffic network whose nodes are airports, sectors, or navigation points and links are defined and weighted according to the traffic of flights between the nodes. By using a unique database of the air traffic in the European airspace, we investigate the architecture of these networks with a special emphasis on their community structure. We propose that unsupervised network community detection algorithms can be used to monitor the current use of the airspace and improve it by guiding the design of new ones. Specifically, we compare the performance of several community detection algorithms, both with fixed and variable resolution, and also by using a null model which takes into account the spatial distance between nodes, and we discuss their ability to find communities that could be used to define new control units of the airspace. Public Library of Science 2014-05-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4014470/ /pubmed/24809991 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094414 Text en © 2014 Gurtner et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Multi-Scale Analysis of the European Airspace Using Network Community Detection
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094414
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