A weighted complex network model driven by traffic flow

We review recent progress in the research on weighted complex networks. In particular, we present our recent model of a traffic flow driven weighted technological network. This model can show simultaneously five characteristics of a real network such as the power law distribution for the degree of connection, strength, weighting, as well as the large clustering coefficient and non-assortative mixing property. Hence, this model describes successfully scale-free behavior and small-world effects of real technological complex networks.