Network Infrastructure and the Urban Environment
Subtitle: Advances in Spatial Systems Modelling
By: edited by Lars Lundqvist, Lars-Göran Mattsson, Tschangho John Kim
Contributors: Mattsson, Lars-Göran; Kim, Tschangho John
Series: Advances in Spatial Science, The Regional Science Series; Advances in Spatial Science, The Regional Science Series
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9783642722448; 9783642722424
Subjects: Engineering; Economics; Geography; Regional economics
Description: Transportation and communications networks are tremendously important for location, economic efficiency, mobility and welfare. At the same time there is a growing consensus about the negative environmental impacts of transport. A strategy for sustainable spatial systems is one of the most urgent urban planning issues today. This necessitates a comprehensive understanding of the complexities of spatial systems, including how land-use, transport and the environment interact and are influenced by different policies and actions. This book aims at improving this understanding. Leading scholars in social and engineering sciences review facts, trends, issues, policies and models relevant for integrated land-+use/ transport/environment analysis and present recent methodological advances in dynamic network modelling, spatial equilibrium modelling, urban land-use/ transportation modelling and regional development analysis. It also covers results from evaluations of landuse and transport policies.
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Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Issues; title: Dynamics and Equilibria in Network Modelling: New Theoretical and Methodological Developments; title: Integrated Analysis of Activity Location and Transportation in Urban and Regional Systems. With 22 contributions (detailed Contents see Internet).