Location, Transport and Land-Use

This book identifies the underlying principles that govern siting, community development, and product/service delivery. Included are step-by-step procedures to perform: site location, land-use planning, location-routing, competitive allocation of products/services and spatial forecasting. The treatment goes well beyond the state-of-the-art, suggesting specific emerging techniques that are able to address the following problems: emergency-response to natural and manmade hazards, environmental planning, infrastructure management, intelligent transportation systems, real-estate development, remote-sensing, supply-chain management and urban land-use plans. Mindful of the cross-disciplinary nature of today's practice, this book equips professionals and researchers with the necessary techniques and software to work effectively with other members of the team, often from a different background. Location, Transport, and Land-Use is supplemented by many examples, case studies and solutions. TOC:Introduction.- Facility Location Models.- Measuring Spatial Separation: Distance, Time, Routing, and Accessibility.- Simultaneous Location-and-Routing Models.- Including Generation, Competition and Distribution in Location Allocation.- Activity Allocation and Derivation: Evolution of the Lowry-Based Land-Use Models.- Chaos, Catastrophe, Bifurcation and Disaggregation in Locational Models.- Spatial Equilibrium and Disequilibrium: Locational Conflict and the Input-Output Model.- Spatial Econometric Models: The Empirical Experience.- Spatial Time Series.- Spatial Temporal Information: Statistical and Causal-Model Development.- Retrospects and Prospects.- References and Bibliography.- Author Index.- Subject Index.- List of Symbols.