Overview
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Feng Xie
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Metropolitan Washington Council of Gover, Washington D.C., USA
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David M. Levinson
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, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
- Reports the cutting-edge research on the evolution of transportation networks Provides an evolutionary, disaggregated view on transportation development and transportation planning Includes an interdisciplinary examination of network growth from perspectives of geography, engineering, planning, economics, and political science.
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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ANTECEDENTS
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- Feng Xie, David M. Levinson
Pages 3-5
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- Feng Xie, David M. Levinson
Pages 7-23
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- Feng Xie, David M. Levinson
Pages 25-30
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Network Growth in the Past
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NETWORK GROWTH IN THE PAST
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- Feng Xie, David M. Levinson
Pages 33-43
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- Feng Xie, David M. Levinson
Pages 45-53
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- Feng Xie, David M. Levinson
Pages 55-70
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- Feng Xie, David M. Levinson
Pages 71-83
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SPONTANEOUS ORGANIZATION
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- Feng Xie, David M. Levinson
Pages 87-99
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- Feng Xie, David M. Levinson
Pages 101-126
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- Feng Xie, David M. Levinson
Pages 127-137
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Land Use
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Front Matter
Pages 139-140
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LAND USE
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- Feng Xie, David M. Levinson
Pages 141-156
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- Feng Xie, David M. Levinson
Pages 157-176
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Governance and Planning
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Front Matter
Pages 177-178
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GOVERNANCE AND PLANNING
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- Feng Xie, David M. Levinson
Pages 179-198
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- Feng Xie, David M. Levinson
Pages 199-221
About this book
Over the last two centuries, the development of modern transportation has significantly transformed human life. The main theme of this book is to understand the complexity of transportation development and model the process of network growth including its determining factors, which may be topological, morphological, temporal, technological, economic, managerial, social or political. Using multidimensional concepts and methods, the authors develop a holistic framework to represent network growth as an open and complex process with models that demonstrate in a scientific way how numerous independent decisions made by entities such as travelers, property owners, developers, and public jurisdictions could result in a coherent network of facilities on the ground. Models are proposed from innovative perspectives including self-organization, degeneration, and sequential connection to interpret the evolutionary growth of transportation networks in explicit consideration of independent economic and regulatory initiatives. Employing these models, the authors survey a series of topics ranging from network hierarchy and topology to first mover advantage. The authors demonstrate, with a wide spectrum of empirical and theoretical evidence, that network growth follows a path that is not only logical in retrospect, but also predictable and manageable from a planning perspective. In the larger scheme of innovative transportation planning, this book provides a re-consideration of conventional planning practice and sets the stage for further development on the theory and practice of the next-generation, evolutionary planning approach in transportation, making it of interest to scholars and practitioners alike in the field of transportation  .
Authors and Affiliations
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Metropolitan Washington Council of Gover, Washington D.C., USA
Feng Xie
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, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
David M. Levinson