Topological features of liner shipping network

Statistical topological features of network were analyzed by combining complex networks theory with computer simulation of actual ship route data to get the structure characteristics of liner shipping network.Simulation and analysis results show that liner shipping network(LSN) is a small-world network with short average path length,high degree of clustering and its degree distribution follows a power law,the rich nodes' connectivity in the network is evidently higher than the others.The assortativity coefficient of LSN is 0.0574 and not obvious assortative.