Robustness of Trans-European Gas Networks

Details Robustness of Trans-European Gas Networks Robustness of Trans-European Gas Networks

2009-03-02

arxiv.org/abs/0903.0195v3

Physical Review E 80, 016106 (2009)

Physics

Physics and Society

11 pages, 8 figures (minor changes)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.80.016106

Here we uncover the load and fault-tolerant backbones of the trans-European gas pipeline network. Combining topological data with information on inter-country flows, we estimate the global load of the network and its tolerance to failures. To do this, we apply two complementary methods generalized from the betweenness centrality and the maximum flow. We find that the gas pipeline network has grown to satisfy a dual-purpose: on one hand, the major pipelines are crossed by a large number of shortest paths thereby increasing the efficiency of the network; on the other hand, a non-operational pipeline causes only a minimal impact on network capacity, implying that the network is error-tolerant. These findings suggest that the trans-European gas pipeline network is robust, i.e., error tolerant to failures of high load links.

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