Revealing the component structure of the world air transportation network

Applied Network Science

Table 3 Small-world property of the components

	C	C _rand	L	L _rand
North and Central America-Caribbean	0.491	0.0185	2.88	2.892
Europe	0.462	0.044	2.58	2.348
East and Southeast Asia	0.511	0.028	2.89	2.687
Africa-Middle East-Southern Asia	0.504	0.0187	3.25	3.178
Oceania	0.481	0.010	3.5	4.039
South America	0.359	0.015	3.15	3.528
Russia-Central Asia-Transcaucasia	0.495	0.069	2.23	2.531
Large global component	0.11	0.014	3.28	3.13
World air transportation network	0.46	0.005	3.86	3.45

C and \(C_{rand}\) are respectively the clustering coefficients of the local components and the random network with same number of nodes and links. L and \(L_{rand}\) are respectively the average shortest path length of the components and their corresponding random network