Urban Systems Models

1st Edition - January 28, 1975
Editor: J. William Schmidt
Language: English
eBook ISBN:
9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 6 1 1 9 - 5

Urban Systems Models provides description, optimization, and analysis of the main features of highly urbanized areas. It details and shows many models intended to aid in the study… Read more

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Urban Systems Models provides description, optimization, and analysis of the main features of highly urbanized areas. It details and shows many models intended to aid in the study of urban problems. The book focuses mainly on land use, public facility siting, population analysis, resource allocation in congested urban settings, and transportation networks. The text aims to bridge the gap between the use of applied mathematics and techniques on urban analysis. Civil and industrial engineers, transportation and urban planners, public administrators, researchers, and students in related fields will find the book very useful.

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1 Introduction

1-1 On the Use of This Book

1-2 What Is an Urban Area?

1-3 The Modeling of Urban Processes

1-4 Illustrations

Problems

References

Chapter 2 Population

2-1 The Basic Birth and Death Process

2-2 A Closed Society with Unlimited Resources

2-3 Finite Resources

2-4 The Cohort-Survival Approach

2-5 Migration

2-6 Forrester's Urban Dynamics

2-7 Conclusion

Problems

References

Chapter 3 Economy

3-1 Cause and Effect in Urban Development

3-2 Components of Growth Model

3-3 Economic Base-Multiplier Model

3-4 Input-Output Models

3-5 Economy and the Quality of Urban Life

3-6 Conclusion

References

Chapter 4 Land and its Development

4-1 Land-Use Forecasting

4-2 Modeling Framework

4-3 A Trend Model

4-4 Gravity Model

4-5 Intervening Opportunity Model

4-6 Land Market Models

4-7 Conclusion

Problems

References

Chapter 5 Transportation Network

5-1 Conceptual Framework for a Planning Model

5-2 Trip Generation

5-3 Trip Distribution

5-4 Modal Split

5-5 Assignment

5-6 Conclusion

Problems

References

Chapter 6 Congestion at Bottlenecks

6-1 Introduction

6-2 Some Definitions and Observations

6-3 A Single-Server Queue

6-4 The Birth and Death Equation Applied to Queue Systems

6-5 The S-Server Queue System

6-6 Limited Waiting Room

6-7 Conclusion

Problems

References

Chapter 7 Location of Public Facilities

7-1 A Single Facility

7-2 Districting

7-3 Location of Fire Stations

7-4 Optimal Transportation Routing

7-5 Location of Transit Stations along a Given Route

7-6 Conclusion

Problems

References

Chapter 8 Allocation of Public Resources

8-1 The Benefit-Cost Viewpoint

8-2 The Allocation of Incommensurable Resources for Incommensurable Goods

8-3 Social Welfare Functions

8-4 Tracing the Benefits: The Criminal Justice System

8-5 Designing Measures of Effectiveness: Public Health

8-6 Allocation of a Scarce Resource: Space for Automobiles

8-7 Conclusion

Problems

References

Chapter 9 Postscript

Index