Spanish Airport Network Structure: Topological Characterization

Applied complex network theory has become an interesting research field in the last years. Many papers have appeared on this subject dealing with topological description of real transport systems, from small networks like Italian airport to worldwide air transportation network. A comprehensive those critical structures is relevant order understand their dynamics, capacities, and vulnerabilities. In work, for first time, we describe Spanish (SAN) as a Nodes are airports, links flight connections weighed by traffic flow. We study its features dynamics. Our analysis shows that SAN dynamics similar small-size other developed economies. It shares properties small-world scale-free networks, it highly connected efficient disassortative pattern high-degree nodes.