Establishing the relationship between elements of alternative network-based representations of a system is an important component of conflation, error/uncertainty assessment, change detection, and other geospatial analyses. An array of techniques have been proposed in support of such tasks to relate arcs and nodes in one network with those in another based upon establishing linkages among their attributes, geometry, topology, and other characteristics. As assessment of movements through a network is a component of many network analysis methods it is also critical to understand the extent to which movements supported by one network-based representation of a system (i.e., paths) may have counterparts in others. To this end, this article details a framework for relating paths in alternative geographically referenced network representations of a system to one another. The results yielded by application of this methodology provide valuable insight as to how paths supporting movement in one network translate to another network. Knowledge of this geographic and functional alignment among networks is essential for understanding potential implications on modeling movement given different representations of a system.

建立系统的替代基于网络的表示形式的元素之间的关系是合并，错误/不确定性评估，更改检测和其他地理空间分析的重要组成部分。已经提出了一系列技术来支持这样的任务，即基于它们的属性，几何形状，拓扑和其他特性之间的联系，将一个网络中的弧和节点与另一个网络中的弧和节点相关联。由于通过网络进行的运动评估是许多网络分析方法的组成部分，因此了解一个系统的基于网络的表示（即路径）所支持的运动与其他运动相对应的程度也至关重要。为此，本文详细介绍了一种框架，该框架用于将系统的替代地理参考网络表示中的路径相互关联。通过应用该方法所产生的结果提供了关于支持一个网络中的移动的路径如何转换为另一网络的宝贵见解。了解网络之间的地理和功能一致性对于了解给定系统的不同表示形式对建模运动的潜在影响至关重要。