Robustness Analysis of the Regional and Interregional Components of the Weighted World Air Transportation Network

Table 1

Basic topological properties of the world air transportation network, the five large local components, and the largest global component. N is the network size. is the number of edges. δ is the diameter. l is the average shortest path length. μ is the density. ζ is the transitivity, also called the global clustering coefficient. knn (k) is the assortativity, also called the degree correlation coefficient.

Components	N		δ	l	μ	ζ	knn(k)
World air transportation network	2734	16665	12	3,86	0,004	0,26	−0,05
North America-Caribbean	725	3794	7	3.14	0.014	0.28	−0.325
Europe-Russia	683	6016	6	2.85	0.025	0.32	−0.2
East and Southeast Asia-Oceania	630	3012	9	3.35	0.015	0.34	−0.22
Africa-Middle East-Southern Asia	313	989	7	3.37	0.02	0.28	−0.15
South America	201	494	6	3.2	0.024	0.23	−0.35
Large global component	557	2108	8	3	0.013	0.13	−0.25