Robustness Measure of China’s Railway Network Topology Using Relative Entropy

Abstract EN

This study focused on China’s railway network topology issue from a robustness measure perspective.

Relative entropy is used in the study as a measurement of robustness of railway network topology.

It is found that the entropy-based measure provides more informative analyses compared to a traditional graph measure.

The results indicate that the railway network in the 12th five-year plan has improved robustness when compare to 2008 with respect to deliberate and random attacks.