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Optimal urban networks via mass transportation

By Giuseppe Buttazzo , Aldo Pratelli , Eugene Stepanov , Sergio Solimini (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2009
ISBN
3540857982
DOI
10.1007/978-3-540-85799-0
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1364222 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1961
Edition
1
Pages
150\161
Library
Kolxo3
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11
Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; OptimiMathematical Programming; Manifolds and Cell Compl

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.

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