Optimal urban networks via mass transportation
By: Giuseppe Buttazzo ... [et al.].
Series: Lecture notes in mathematics -- 1961
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9783540857983; 9783540857990
Description: "Recently much attention has been devoted to the optimization of transportation networks in a given geographic area. One assumes the distributions of population and of services/workplaces (i.e. the network's sources and sinks) are known, as well as the costs of movement with/without the network, and the cost of constructing/maintaining it. Both the long-term optimization and the short-term, "who goes where" optimization are considered. These models can also be adapted for the optimization of other types of networks, such as telecommunications, pipeline or drainage networks. In the monograph we study the most general problem settings, namely, when neither the shape nor even the topology of the network to be constructed is known a priori."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-148) and index.