Transactions of Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics
Comparison on Vulnerability of European and Chinese Air Transport Networks under Spatial Hazards
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Abstract:
European air transport network (EATN) and Chinese air transport network (CATN), as two important air transport systems in the world, are facing increasingly spatial hazards, such as extreme weathers and natural disasters. In order to reflect and compare impact of spatial hazards on the two networks in a practical way, a new spatial vulnerability model (SVM) is proposed in this paper, which analyzes vulnerability of a network system under spatial hazards from the perspectives of network topology and characteristics of hazards. Before introduction of the SVM, two abstract networks for EATN and CATN are established with a simple topological analysis by traditional vulnerability method. Then, the process to study vulnerability of an air transport network under spatial hazards by SVM is presented. Based on it, a comparative case study on EATN and CATN under two representative spatial hazard scenarios, one with an even spatial distribution, named as spatially uniform hazard, and the other with an uneven spatial distribution that takes rainstorm hazard as an example, is conducted. The simulation results show that both of EATN and CATN are robust to spatially uniform hazard, but vulnerable to rainstorm hazard. In the comparison of the results of the two networks that only stands from the points of network topology and characteristics of hazard without considering certain unequal factors, including airspace openness and flight safety importance in Europe and China, EATN is more vulnerable than CATN under rainstorm hazard. This suggests that when the two networks grow to a similar developed level in future, EATN needs to pay more attention to the impact of rainstorm hazard.
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