time=net.work was born in order to measure and evaluate transportation network complexity. After having read the amazing A.L. Barabàsi’s “Linked”, I decided to develop some new approaches towards networks dynamics. How Ordered are they? How Small are they? How Robust are they?
Transportation network analysis is large in number in the scientific engineering literature. During the last years many physicians have been interested in such topics, laying the theoretical basis for extending complex networks analysis to real dynamical systems. Time=net.work tries to apply and verify physical theories on real systems, using timetable data of real moving entities under fixed constraints.
The main time=net.work project is Berlin urban network, consisting of U-Bahn, S-Bahn, Regional Bahn lines, strongly interconnected with Bus, Straβenbahn and Metrotram vehicles. The complex network approach requires a simple tool to analyse the dynamics of different transportation modes on real infrastructures.