RT Journal Article
T1 An analysis of the Spanish high capacity road network criticality
A1 García Palomares, Juan Carlos
A1 Gutiérrez Puebla, Javier
A1 Martín, Juan Carlos
A1 Moya Gómez, Borja
AB The analysis of complex networks has been carried out in different fields using an ample variety of method and concepts. Recently, in the general literature of regional economics, the concepts of resilience, connectivity, vulnerability and criticality have been gaining their momentum. The aim of this paper is to provide an analytical framework, using well-known accessibility indicators, in order to calculate the critical links or road sections of the Spanish high-capacity road network. Our analysis will be based on approximately four hundred sections that will be classified in five different groups according to their criticality degree in the whole network. Our analysis will be complemented with the comparison of the results obtained in five different scenarios, namely the average criticality using the effects on the whole country, Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Pontevedra. Furthermore, the paper will also analyze what kind of intrinsic characteristics of the sections favor or not the links’ criticality using a method based on a classification and regression tree. This analysis is crucial to understand other important concepts that are recently being studied in network and spatial economics, like, for example, resilience and vulnerability. It is concluded that the number of relations or routes, being a trunk or not, the road density and the time to Madrid capital play an important role in the criticality of the roads section in the high capacity road network.
PB Springer
SN 0049-4488
SN 1572-9435
YR 2018
FD 2018-04-13
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/95122
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/95122
LA eng
NO García-Palomares, J.C., Gutiérrez, J., Martín, J.C. et al. An analysis of the Spanish high capacity road network criticality. Transportation 45, 1139–1159 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-018-9877-4
DS Docta Complutense
RD 1 oct 2024