The fractal dimension of some railway networks

Ludovic Benguigui

We determine the fractal dimension D of four different railway networks. We found for Paris, Moscow and the Rhine towns in Germany, D between 1.7 and 1.8 but for the network connecting Paris to the suburbs, D is equal to 1.5. We discuss some implications of these results.

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Ludovic Benguigui. The fractal dimension of some railway networks. Journal de Physique I, 1992, 2 (4), pp.385-388. ⟨10.1051/jp1:1992151⟩. ⟨jpa-00246492⟩