Jing Tian’s paper was published in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Title: Network-scape metric analysis: a new approach for the pattern analysis of urban road networks
Authors: Tian, J (Tian, Jing); Yu, MT (Yu, Mengting); Ren, C (Ren, Chang); Lei, YZ (Lei, Yingzhe)
Source: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SCIENCE Volume: 33 Issue: 3 Pages: 537-566 DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2018.1545234 Published: MAR 4 2019
Abstract: The spatial patterns of road networks reflect the morphological and structural characteristics of cities. Previous studies have focused mainly on seeking universal laws in road networks rather than explaining their differences. A new approach for road network pattern analysis is proposed that has been inspired by landscape metric analysis. The utility of this approach is illustrated through (but is not limited to) the extraction of the main factors in network landscapes, or network-scapes for short. Twenty-four metrics were calculated for network-scapes of 100 cities worldwide, before an exploratory analysis is performed to detect the main factors. Four main factors were revealed and may be regarded as the characteristic indicators of road networks, which were identified to be evenness, richness-density, shape irregularity, and size and shape variation. The meanings of these factors are explained, and their spatial distributions are illustrated. Compared to existing road network analytics, these factors depict better the characteristic differences of road networks. The proposed approach provides a new framework for road network pattern analysis from a cellular perspective.
Accession Number: WOS: 000454832600006
Document type: Article
Language: English
Keywords: Urban road networks; landscape metric analysis; network-scape
Address of reprint author:
Ren, C (reprint author), Wuhan Univ, Sch Resource & Environm Sci, Wuhan, Hubei, Peoples R China.
Ren, C (reprint author), Wuhan Univ, State Key Lab Informat Engn Surveying Mapping & R, Wuhan, Hubei, Peoples R China.
E-mail: imrc@whu.edu.cn
Addresses:
[Tian, Jing; Ren, Chang; Lei, Yingzhe] Wuhan Univ, Sch Resource & Environm Sci, Wuhan, Hubei, Peoples R China.
[Tian, Jing] Wuhan Univ, Key Lab Geog Informat Syst, Wuhan, Hubei, Peoples R China.
[Tian, Jing] Natl Adm Surveying Mapping & Geoinformat, Key Lab Digital Mapping & Land Informat Applicat, Wuhan, Hubei, Peoples R China.
[Yu, Mengting] Univ Penn, Sch Design, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA.
[Ren, Chang] Wuhan Univ, State Key Lab Informat Engn Surveying Mapping & R, Wuhan, Hubei, Peoples R China.