Freight Flows and Spatial Aspects of the British Economy

by Michael Chisholm, Patrick Michael O'Sullivan, Patrick O'Sullivan

Originally published in 1973, this book reports experiments in the modelling of freight flows in Great Britain, on the basis of 78 origin-destination zones covering the entire country. Its central purpose is to establish whether gravity model or linear programming approaches provide the most appropriate way of describing the existing spatial distribution of freight volumes and hence of predicting future flows, given possible allocations of population...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521112702
• ISBN13: 9780521112703
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"