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Location parameters in the Pittsburgh model

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  1. See Ira S. Lowry, ‘Design for an Intra-Regional Location Model,” published in mimeograph form as Working Paper No. 6 of the Economic Study of the Pittsburgh Region (Pittsburgh Regional Planning Association, September 1960). There have since been revisions in details of the model design, but the basic structure has not been changed.

  2. The records of this survey were made available to the Regional Economic Study through the courtesy and cooperation of the Pittsburgh Area Transportation Study, the Pennsylvania Department of Highways, and the Bureau of Public Roads.

  3. See Sheldon W. Sullivan, “Comparisons of Selected Home Interview Data, 1958 and 1960” in PATSResearch Letter, Vol. III, No. 3 (May–June 1961).

  4. An employment surface was constructed by the Regional Economic Study for most of Allegheny Country, with estimates of 1958 employment for each mile-square unit of area. The basic data were drawn from the PATS 1958 Home interview Survey. For a description of the methods used, see Ira S. Lowry, “Employment by Place of Work in the Regional Core,” a Preliminary Report of Economic Study of the Pittsburgh Region (Pittsburgh Regional Planning Association, June 1962).

  5. See Louis E. Keefer, “Vehicle-Miles of Travel Accuracy Check,” inInterim Technical Report, Number II (Pittsburgh Area Transportation Study, November 1959).

  6. See Lowdon Wingo, Jr., Transportation and Urban Land, (Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future, 1961), Ch. V; William Alonso, “A Theory of the Urban Land Market” inPapers and Proceedings of the Regional science Association, Vol. VI (1960); and unpublished doctoral theses by Alonso (University of Pennsylvania), John F. Kain (University of California at Berkeley), and the present writer (University of California at Berkeley).

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  7. These arguments are formalized in a series of mathematical models presented in the author's “Design for an Intra-Regional Locational Model,”op. cit. See also Morton Schneider, “Gravity Models and Trip Distribution Theory,”,Papers and Proceedings of the Regional Science Association, Vol. 5 (1959).

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The work reported in this paper was carried out while the author was a member of the staff of the Economic Study of the Pittsburgh Region, Pittsburgh Regional Planning Association. He is now with The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica.

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Lowry, I.S. Location parameters in the Pittsburgh model. Papers of the Regional Science Association 11, 145–165 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01943201

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