Provides the first comprehensive presentation of state-of-the-art knowledge about infrastructure networks

Covers both empirical results and theoretical models

Addresses a broad audience comprising physicists, geographers, urbanists as well as applied mathematicians

Presents a truly interdisciplinary approach to the topic

Inhalt
From complex to spatial networks.- Irrelevant and simple measures.- Statistics of faces and typology of planar graphs.- Betweenness centrality.- Simplicity and entropy.- Spatial dominance and community detection.- Measuring the time evolution of spatial networks.- Tessellations of the plane.- Random geometric graphs.- Spatial generalizations of random graphs.- Loops and branches.- Optimal networks.- Models of Network growth.- Greedy models.- Discussion and future directions