Exploring the Regional Structure of the Worldwide Air Traffic and Route Networks

Figure 1

(a) The communities the Louvain community detection algorithm identifies. It includes eighteen communities. (b) The communities uncovered by the Combo community detection algorithm. It contains seven communities. For both, each color represents a community. Similar communities have similar colors. One can observe that the Combo algorithm regroups the communities of the Louvain algorithm located in Canada and Alaska.

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