Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-34954086-20120922085545/@comment-4928331-20120923084924

I borrowed the terminology from the airline industry.

A hub and spoke model means there's a "Grand Central" hub, connecting to many small spokes. Thus, if you live in Podunk A and want to get to Podunk B, you first travel from Podunk A to the hub, and then take a flight to a spoke - Podunk B. Delta Airlines provides an example of a hub-and-spoke model.

In point-to-point, you simply travel from Podunk A to Podunk B. Southwest Airlines provides an example of point-to-point. As does your dodecahedron model.

The advantage of a hub-and-spoke is it is more efficient for the carrier. You need to build a pretty good hub, but can use smaller airports for your spokes. Point-to-point is obviously quicker for customers, but for thinly traveled routes, passenger volumes can be low.

I personally believe that there are three main hubs - the Watchtower, the Cave, and the Hall of Justice. Hence you get camouflaged spokes like an out-of-order phone booth (Gotham City) or a TARDIS Box (Fawcett City).

Anyway, back to our regularly-scheduled physics!