Telecommunications, Transportation, and Location

Telecommunications, Transportation, and Location
Author: Kenneth John Button
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781781958643

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This book looks at the economics of the evolving interface between the movement of people, goods and information (telecommunications). It illustrates the increasing importance of information flows in relation to how people move about, the ways that goods are transported and on land-use patterns. The authors show how the linkages involved are not static but vary as technology develops, as social priorities shift, and as policymakers adjust institutional structures. The situation is evolving but, nevertheless, from a public policy and a narrower commercial, business perspective, it is important to gain broad insights into what is occurring and the ways that telecommunications, transportation, and location interact. This is the focus of the book. Telecommunications, Transportation and Location contains both synthesis and interpretations of what others have found in regard to these interactions as well as new work that extends earlier findings. The material is presented in a rigorous yet accessible manner to open it to a wide audience of practitioners concerned with policymaking within various levels of government and within private business. Researchers and academics teaching courses including transportation planning, communications, regional science, urban and regional planning, urban and regional economics and transport economics will find much to engage them within this book. It will also be very useful to logistics professionals, and policymakers and practitioners involved in transportation planning.

Methods and Models in Transport and Telecommunications

Methods and Models in Transport and Telecommunications
Author: Aura Reggiani
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2006-03-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3540285504

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One aspect of the new economy is a transition to a networked society, and the emergence of a highly interconnected, interdependent and complex system of networks to move people, goods and information. An example of this is the in creasing reliance of networked systems (e. g. , air transportation networks, electric power grid, maritime transport, etc. ) on telecommunications and information in frastructure. Many of the networks that evolved today have an added complexity in that they have both a spatial structure – i. e. , they are located in physical space but also an a spatial dimension brought on largely by their dependence on infor mation technology. They are also often just one component of a larger system of geographically integrated and overlapping networks operating at different spatial levels. An understanding of these complexities is imperative for the design of plans and policies that can be used to optimize the efficiency, performance and safety of transportation, telecommunications and other networked systems. In one sense, technological advances along with economic forces that encourage the clustering of activities in space to reduce transaction costs have led to more efficient network structures. At the same time the very properties that make these networks more ef ficient have also put them at a greater risk for becoming disconnected or signifi cantly disruptedwh en super connected nodes are removed either intentionally or through a targeted attack.

The Telecommunications-transportation Tradeoff

The Telecommunications-transportation Tradeoff
Author: Jack M. Nilles
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1976
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

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ETHS alumnus, class of 1950.

Benefits of Telecommunications to the Transportation Sector of Developing Countries

Benefits of Telecommunications to the Transportation Sector of Developing Countries
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 150
Release: 1988
Genre: Telecommunication
ISBN:

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Importance of the coordination of transport, idle time of lorry or perished goods due to transport breakdowns, development of the mathematic-economic model, avoidable empty runs, ADDIN model, computer aided programs.

Concentrator Location in Telecommunications Networks

Concentrator Location in Telecommunications Networks
Author: Hande Yaman
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2006-06-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0387235329

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This book is the only recent title to present polyhedral results and exact solution methods for location problems encountered in telecommunications, but which also have applications in other areas, such as transportation and supply chain management.

Telecommunications and the City

Telecommunications and the City
Author: Steve Graham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2002-11-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1134813929

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Telecommunications and the City provides the first critical and state-of-the-art review of the relations between telecommunications and all aspects of city development and management. Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches and a wide body of recent research, the book addresses key academic and policy debates about technological change and the future of cities with a fresh perspective. Through this approach, the complex and crucial transformations underway in cities in which telecommunications have central importance are mapped out and illustrated. Key areas where telecommunications impinge on the economic, social, physical, enviromental and institutional development of cities are illustrated by using boxed extracts and wide range of case study examples from Europe, Japan and North America. Rejecting the extremes of optimism and pessimism in current hype about cities and telecommunications, Telecommunications and the City offers a sophisticated new perspective through which city-telecommunications relations can be understood.