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Complex networks; Pakistan; airport network.

Transportation infrastructure plays a vital role in the development of a country’s economy and is regarded as one of the most important indicators of its economic growth. In this study, we analyse the Airport Network of Pakistan (ANP), which represents Pakistan’s domestic civil aviation infrastructure, as a weighted complex network. We find that ANP is a small-world network and is disassortative in nature. We further analyse the dynamic properties of the network and compare them to their topological counterparts. Although small in size, the ANP does show similar properties as compared to the US, China and especially the Indian airport network.

Yasir Tariq Mohmand¹ Aihu Wang¹ Haibin Chen¹

1. School of Business Administration, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China

Published

July 2015

Manuscript received

13 July 2013

Manuscript revised

30 May 2014

Accepted

11 June 2014

Early published

26 February 2015