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Evolving Transportation Networks (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
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Evolving Transportation Networks (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
Series: Transportation Research, Economics and Policy
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Over the last two centuries, the development of modern
transportation has significantly transformed human life. The main
theme of this book is to understand the complexity of
transportation development and model the process of network growth
including its determining factors, which may be topological,
morphological, temporal, technological, economic, managerial,
social or political. Using multidimensional concepts and methods,
the authors develop a holistic framework to represent network
growth as an open and complex process with models that demonstrate
in a scientific way how numerous independent decisions made by
entities such as travelers, property owners, developers, and public
jurisdictions could result in a coherent network of facilities on
the ground. Models are proposed from innovative perspectives
including self-organization, degeneration, and sequential
connection to interpret the evolutionary growth of transportation
networks in explicit consideration of independent economic and
regulatory initiatives. Employing these models, the authors survey
a series of topics ranging from network hierarchy and topology to
first mover advantage. The authors demonstrate, with a wide
spectrum of empirical and theoretical evidence, that network growth
follows a path that is not only logical in retrospect, but also
predictable and manageable from a planning perspective. In the
larger scheme of innovative transportation planning, this book
provides a re-consideration of conventional planning practice and
sets the stage for further development on the theory and practice
of the next-generation, evolutionary planning approach in
transportation, making it of interest to scholars and practitioners
alike in the field of transportation .
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