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We compare the Indian railways and domestic airways using network analysis approach. The analysis also compares different characteristics of the networks with a previous work and notes the change in the networks over a decade. In a populous country like India with an ever increasing GDP, more and more people are gaining the facility of choosing one mode of travel over the other. Here we have compared these two networks, by building a merger network. The need for such type of network arises as the order of both networks are different. This newly formed network can be used in identifying new routes and adding more flights on some of the popular routes in India.
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Dhar, A.K., Sharma, S., Singh, R.R. (2020). Network Based Comparison of Indian Railways and Airways. In: Chellappan, S., Choo, KK.R., Phan, N. (eds) Computational Data and Social Networks. CSoNet 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12575. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66046-8_9
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