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The purpose is to find an allocation of a given total amount of road capital in two-dimensional space such that total transportation costs for a region are minimized. A continous model in analogy to hydrodynamics is used. Transports are supposed to be generated by the gravity hypothesis. It is discussed how road capital should be ditributed at a given traffic distribution. It is also discussed how the latter problem shlould be solved when it is taken into account that the distribution of roads affects the choice of paths.
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Puu, T. (1997). Towards a Theory of Optimal Roads. In: Andersson, Å.E., Beckmann, M.J., Löfgren, KG., Stenberg, M.A.A. (eds) Economics of Space and Time. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60877-3_6
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