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The consideration of abstract geometrical properties of networks must not exclude the study of technical and economic properties. Such properties have been widely studied by engineers and economists but rarely by geographers, with the exception of a few scholars such as O’Dell1 and Ullman2 and a few topics such as railway gauges.3 In the present analysis these properties are important for two reasons: the extent to which they exhibit spatial variation, and the extent to which they give rise to spatial variation in other phenomena.
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Hay, A. (1973). Technical and Economic Properties of Transport Networks. In: Transport for the Space Economy. Focal Problems in Geography Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-86191-0_6
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