Recent years have witnessed an explosion of extensive geolocated datasets related to
human movement, enabling scientists to quantitatively study individual and collective …

The success of new scientific areas can be assessed by their potential in contributing to new
theoretical approaches and in applications to real-world problems. Complex networks have …

This paper encapsulates the Chinese Airline Network (CAN) into multi-layer infrastructures
via the “k-core decomposition” method. The network is divided into three layers: Core layer …

As a strategic factor for a country to survive in the global competition, transportation systems
have attracted extensive attention from different disciplines for a long time. Since the …

To better understand the mechanism of flight delay propagation at the system-level, we built
a delay causality network (DCN) based on the Granger causality test. Through topological …

An airport network forms the backbone of any air transportation system. The relationships
among the origins and destinations of flights result in a complex network of routes which can …

This paper presents a novel approach to investigating and understanding the evolving
structure of the Southeast Asian air transport network (SAAN) over the period 1979–2012 …

With the rapid development of the economy and the accelerated globalization process, the
aviation industry plays a more and more critical role in today's world, in both developed and …

This paper analyzes the vulnerability of the European air transport network to major airport
closures from the perspective of the delays imposed to disrupted airline passengers. Using …

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented in airline history, with irregular
flight bans, the inability for accurate demand estimation, several turns in the epidemiological …