Research Article

An Allometric Algorithm for Fractal-Based Cobb-Douglas Function of Geographical Systems

Table 4

Parameters and main statistics based on allometric scaling for two types of models on public transportation of China’s cities (2012).

Parameter and statistic Global modeling (public transportation) Local modeling (bus and trolley bus)
versus versus versus versus

Proportionality coefficient 18.3409 20.8673 25.8559 32.1484
Scaling exponent 0.9972 0.9604 0.9558 0.9088
Determination coefficient 0.9498 0.8042 0.9581 0.8097
Cross elastic coefficient 0.4986 0.4802 0.4779 0.4544