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Transportation Networks and the Optimal Location of Human Activities: A Numerical Geography Approach (Transport Economics, Management, and Policy)
Transportation Networks and the Optimal Location of Human Activities A Numerical Geography Approach - Transport Economics, Management, and Policy Author:Isabelle Thomas ‘Economists have rediscovered space through the surge of the so-called “New Economic Geography”. However, they often forget the tremendous amount of work developed in economic geography per se. In this book, Isabelle Thomas provides a clear, rigorous and unified treatment of one of the main approaches taken by geographers to study the location o... more »f human activities, namely Numerical Geography. Economists, regional scientists and transportation planners have much to learn from this book while geographers should be pleased to see how one of them masters so well such a difficult topic.’ - Jacques Thisse, CORE, Belgium The relationship between the shape of transportation networks and the optimal locations and allocations of human activities is examined in this unique volume. Simulations are performed on different toy-networks: several transportation networks are designed and their effects on location-allocation results are tested on different markets. Several optimal location models are used. The author then attempts to discover how the modeling results are affected by negative externalities or zone pricing policies. Finally, these results are applied to real-world situations, illustrating and confirming the results of the simulations performed on toy-networks. This volume is an interesting and original approach for location-modelers as well as planners. Transportation Networks and the Optimal Location of Human Activities will also appeal to geographers, spatial economists, location-allocation practitioners and transportation researchers.« less