Research Article

Understanding Topological and Spatial Attributes of Bus Transportation Networks in Cities of Chongqing and Chengdu

Table 6

Assortativity of nodes observed based on k-core layers.

-ā€Š-BTN-CQBTN-CD
layersnumber of nodes observednumber of nodes observed

Core layer-0.011205-0.007557
k-core = 65-0.004403-0.010624
k-core = 60-0.011548-0.018720
k-core = 550.0006200.027917
k-core = 500.0057580.0341003
k-core = 450.0229110.0351092
k-core = 400.03010430.0391207
k-core = 350.04011300.0431359
k-core = 300.04712890.0561540
k-core = 250.07215100.0791760
k-core = 200.10717670.0951919
k-core = 150.13320260.1292232
k-core = 100.15422970.1552621
k-core = 50.16724920.1592756
k-core = 10.16725390.1592766

k-core = n means nodes observed are in the levels of which k-shell is greater than or equal to n; in particular, k-core = 1 means nodes observed are all of the nodes in BTNs [30, 31].