Optimal Urban Networks via Mass Transportation

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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Buttazzo, Giuseppe, Pratelli, Aldo (Author), Solimini, Sergio (Author), Stepanov, Eugene (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2009, 2009
Edition:1st ed. 2009
Series:Lecture Notes in Mathematics
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Problem setting
  • Optimal connected networks
  • Relaxed problem and existence of solutions
  • Topological properties of optimal sets
  • Optimal sets and geodesics in the two-dimensional case