TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Analysis of road network pattern considering population distribution and central business district
JO  - PLoS one
A1  - Zhao, Fangxia
A1  - Sun, Huijun
A1  - Wu, Jianjun
A1  - Gao, Ziyou
A1  - Liu, Ronghui
SP  - e0151676
EP  - e0151676
VL  - 11
IS  - 3
N2  - This paper proposes a road network growing model with the consideration of population distribution and central business district (CBD) attraction. In the model, the relative neighborhood graph (RNG) is introduced as the connection mechanism to capture the characteristics of road network topology. The simulation experiment is set up to illustrate the effects of population distribution and CBD attraction on the characteristics of road network. Moreover, several topological attributes of road network is evaluated by using coverage, circuitness, treeness and total length in the experiment. Finally, the suggested model is verified in the simulation of China and Beijing Highway networks.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1932-6203
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0151676
ID  - ref1
ER  -