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The problems of network supply are often allowed to overshadow the equally important questions of vehicle supply: shipping, railway rolling stock, aircraft, motor vehicles. This can be attributed in part to the short working life of any unit of capacity and in part to the geographic mobility of vehicles. The implication of these two characteristics, in theory, is that supply should adjust rapidly to demand in both time and space and therefore no problems of significance should remain. The first section constitutes an attempt to explore in greater depth the spatial distribution of vehicle supply and the types of explanation which may be advanced. The succeeding section concerns the special case of public service capacity and its allocation to specific nodes and routes.
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Hay, A. (1973). Vehicle Supply. In: Transport for the Space Economy. Focal Problems in Geography Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-86191-0_7
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