A New Accident Analysis Method Based on Complex Network and Cascading Failure

Figure 1

Illustration of a graph with 𝑁=5 nodes and 6 edges, where the edge set is 𝐸={(𝑣₁,𝑣₂),(𝑣₁,𝑣₃),(𝑣₁,𝑣₅),(𝑣₂,𝑣₃),(𝑣₂,𝑣₅),(𝑣₃,𝑣₅)} and 𝑁(𝑣₁)={𝑣₂,𝑣₃,𝑣₅}, 𝑁(𝑣₂)={𝑣₁,𝑣₃,𝑣₅}, 𝑁(𝑣₃)={𝑣₁,𝑣₂,𝑣₅}, 𝑁(𝑣₄) is an empty set, and 𝑁(𝑣₅)={𝑣₁,𝑣₂,𝑣₃}. The shortest path length of nodes 𝑣₁ and 𝑣₂ is 1.