Table 1 Global studies investigating the growth of transportation networks

The geography of network growth

Surface transportation networks subject to geographical constraints;

Gastner and Newman [20] (EU) Barrat et al. [6] (NA)

Simulation models to replicate the evolution of transportation networks

Taaffe et al. [52] (WW) Pred [41] (NA) RIMMER [43] (OC) Farahani et al. [18] (EU) Jaržemskiene [27](WW)

Correlations among growth factors

Driving or interacting forces behind the expansion of transportation networks, e.g., land use, vehile miles traveled, economic development, etc.

Antrop [3] (EU) McKinnon [39] (EU) Shi et al. [48] (AS) Cervero and Hansen [10] (NA)

Analyses of topological properties

View it as a complex network

Tsiotas [55] (EU) Ingvardson and Nielsen [26] (EU)