Freight Flows and Spatial Aspects of the British Economy

Name: Freight Flows and Spatial Aspects of the British Economy
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ISBN: 9780521086721

ISBN-10: 0521086728

ISBN-13: 9780521086721

Edition: 1973

Authors: Michael Chisholm, Patrick O'Sullivan

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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. Linear programming appears to be the msot useful way to approach freight modelling on this scale. The model outputs allow the authors to probe the problem of regional comparative advantage in terms of the volume of transport inputs. Although…

Book details

List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 1973
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/1/1973
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 151
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

Michael Chisholm was Professor of Geography at the university of Cambridge until retiring in 1




Introduction



Framework analysis



The problem of foreign trade



Freight flow data



Estimating the generation of traffic



The distribution of traffic



Modal split



The transport costs of manufacturing industry, 1963



Distance and the cost of transport



Summary and conclusions


Appendix