Lecture notes in economics and mathematical systems, 173.
1 The Transportation Planning Process.- 1.1. Goal formulation, generation and evaluation of alternatives.- 1.2. Descriptive approaches.- 1.3. Optimizing approaches.- 1.4. Welfare theory and measures of efficiency.- 1.5. The use of existing traffic patterns in the planning process.- 1.6. Outline of the paper.- I On Entropy.- 2 Entropy as a Measure of Dispersion.- 3 Some Comments upon Entropy Maximizing.- II The Doubly Constrained Trip Distribution Problem.- 4 A Model for the Constraints.- 5 The Objective Function and Our Minimization Problem.- 6 The Gravity Model as the Optimal Solution of the Entropy Constrained Aggregate Linear Program.- 7 Sensitivity and the Dual Program.- 8 Interactivity and Entropy.- 9 Benefit Measures and the Gravity Model.- III Modal Split and Assignment.- 10 Modal Split.- 11 Assignment to the Network.- IV Maximizing Total Utility.- 12 An Utility Approach to the Original Trip Distribution Problem.- 13 Entropy Constrained Aggregate Linear Program.- References.