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Network Equilibrium Models of Urban Location and Travel Choices: A New Research Agenda

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At least 60 years ago, road construction agencies began to consider building systems of controlled access, grade-separated, multiple lane roads, now called freeways, through and around the large cities of the economically advanced countries of the world. These roads were a response to the widespread, rapidly increasing adoption of the automobile, motor bus and motor truck as a new form of urban and interurban transportation. This motor vehicle/road technology was competing effectively with and beginning to dominate the earlier railroad-based passenger technology, which took the specific form of commuter railroads, elevated and subway lines, and various types of tram/streetcar systems.

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  1. State University of New York, Binghamton, USA

    Manas Chatterji (Professor of Management) (Professor of Management)

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    Robert E. Kuenne (Professor of Economics) (Professor of Economics)

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Boyce, D.E. (1990). Network Equilibrium Models of Urban Location and Travel Choices: A New Research Agenda. In: Chatterji, M., Kuenne, R.E. (eds) New Frontiers in Regional Science. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10633-2_16

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