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Clean Water Network Design for Refugee Camps Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2021-01-13 Özlem Karsu, Bahar Y. Kara, Elif Akkaya, Aysu Ozel
Motivated by the recent rise in need for refugee camps, we address one of the key infrastructural problems in the establishment process: The clean water network design problem. We formulate the problem as a biobjective integer programming problem and determine the locations of the water source, water distribution units and the overall network design (pipelines), considering the objectives of minimizing
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A Game-Theoretic Approach to the Freight Transportation Pricing Problem in the Presence of Intermodal Service Providers in a Competitive Market Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Mohammad Tamannaei, Hamid Zarei, Sajede Aminzadegan
This article studies a competitive freight transportation pricing problem in the presence of two Intermodal Service Providers (ISPs) and a Direct Transportation System (DTS). The ISPs apply both rail and road transportation modes to carry the demands of a network of customers. The DTS uses only roads to carry the demands, without any transhipment at a distribution center. Each customer chooses its
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Delay, Throughput and Emission Tradeoffs in Airport Runway Scheduling with Uncertainty Considerations Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2020-11-21 Jianan Yin, Yuanyuan Ma, Yuxin Hu, Ke Han, Suwan Yin, Hua Xie
Runway systems are among the most stringent bottlenecks at global hub airports, which have been identified as a major source of airport inefficiency. Runway system inefficiencies are manifested in multiple dimensions such as delay, throughput reduction and excessive emission, whose tradeoffs are investigated in this paper as part of an airport runway scheduling problem in the presence of uncertainty
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Optimal Inventory Level Control and Replenishment Plan for Retailers Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2020-11-20 Chih-Kang Lin, Shangyao Yan, Fei-Yen Hsiao
In vendor managed inventory (VMI) operations, it is necessary for both the suppliers and the customers to reach an agreement on the maximal and minimal inventory level. In practice, in VMI, inventory levels are decided manually by planning personnel, based on their experience and past operating records. From a system optimization point of view, the determination of the upper and lower inventory levels
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Change of Scene: The Geographic Dynamics of Resilience to Vehicular Accidents Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2020-11-20 Timothy C. Matisziw, Mark Ritchey, Robert MacKenzie
Most have experienced the impact of vehicular accidents, whether it was in terms of increased commute time, delays in receiving goods, higher insurance premiums, elevated costs of services, or simply absorbing the daily tragedies on the evening news. While accidents are common, the complexity and dynamics of transportation systems can make it challenging to infer where and when incidents may occur
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Emergence and Dynamics of Short Food Supply Chains Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2020-11-11 Arnaud Z. Dragicevic
Through the consideration of a stochastic matching model dependent on a probability function built from the Heron’s formula, we analyze the emergence and the dynamics of short agrifood sale circuits in form of time-evolving random hypergraphs. These marketing circuits, which are used as a supportive policy for promoting local food consumption, typify short distribution channels. Although bipartite
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Spatial Aggregation Issues in Traffic Assignment Models Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2020-11-09 Ouassim Manout, Patrick Bonnel, François Pacull
Most transport models rely on a discrete description of space, and are, therefore, subject to spatial aggregation bias. Spatial aggregation induces the use of centroid connectors and the omission of intrazonal trips in traffic assignment. This practice is shown to bias main traffic assignment outcomes, especially in spatially coarse models. To address these modeling errors, the literature suggests
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Transmission Network Investment Using Incentive Regulation: A Disjunctive Programming Approach Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2020-10-18 D. Khastieva, M. R. Hesamzadeh, I. Vogelsang, J. Rosellón
A well-planned electric transmission infrastructure is the foundation of a reliable and efficient power system, especially in the presence of large scale renewable generation. However, the current electricity market designs lack incentive mechanisms which can guarantee optimal transmission investments and ensure reliable integration of renewable generation such as wind. This paper first proposes a
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Modeling the Spatial Effects of Land-Use Patterns on Traffic Safety Using Geographically Weighted Poisson Regression Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2020-10-15 Chengcheng Xu, Yuxuan Wang, Wei Ding, Pan Liu
This study aimed to investigate how land-use pattern affects crash frequency at traffic analysis zone (TAZ) level. Traffic, road network, land use, population and crash data were collected from Los Angeles County, California in 2014. K-means clustering analysis was first conducted to divide land use at each TAZ into five different patterns. Geographically weighted Poisson regression (GWPR) models were
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Analysis of Technical, Pure Technical and Scale Efficiencies of Pakistan Railways Using Data Envelopment Analysis and Tobit Regression Model Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2020-10-08 Khalid Mehmood Alam, Li Xuemei, Saranjam Baig, Li Yadong, Akber Aman Shah
Efficient railway transportation systems are very important for economic development of countries. Although extensive research has been conducted on railway efficiency in developed countries, however, such studies for developing economies in general and Pakistan is lacking. Here, we used data envelopment analysis (DEA) to evaluate the technical, pure technical and scale efficiencies of Pakistan railways
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How to Optimize Train Stops under Diverse Passenger Demand: a New Line Planning Method for Large-Scale High-Speed Rail Networks Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2020-09-30 Xin Zhang, Lei Nie, Xin Wu, Yu Ke
Optimizing stop plans of train lines greatly contributes to improving the quality of rail passenger service. Traditionally, stop plans are pre-specified according to the classification of stations in the line planning process. However, with the expansion of railway networks and the great changes of travel demand among different origin–destination pairs (ODs), it becomes more difficult to generate stops
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Day-to-Day Evolution Model Based on Dynamic Reference Point with Heterogeneous Travelers Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2020-09-08 Huijun Sun, Si Zhang, Linghui Han, Xiaomei Zhao, Lu Lou
This paper investigates the implementation of a dynamic reference point scheme to capture traveler’s mental characteristics, with their day-to-day route choice behavior and heterogeneity. The traveler’s heterogeneity focuses on their different risk attitudes. On each day, travelers choose the routes based on their estimated travel costs, which can be affected by the reference point structure and its
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Facility Dependent Distance Decay in Competitive Location Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2020-08-26 Tammy Drezner, Zvi Drezner, Dawit Zerom
In this paper we propose a simple general framework for obtaining facility dependent distance decay function in competitive location models. As the distance increases, the decay in patronage by more attractive facilities is slower than the decay by less attractive facilities. This implies that by using only the distribution patterns of neighborhoods from which facility’s patrons originated, the facility
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Traffic Dynamics and Mode Choice’s Delay Effect Under Traffic Restriction in Two-Mode Networks Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2020-07-29 Dong-Fan Xie; Xiao-Mei Zhao
Day-to-day traffic assignment models provide a powerful tool to analyze the time evolution of traffic flow within transport networks. In day-to-day dynamics, most models assume that there are only private cars on traffic networks and travelers update their choices each day. However, there are mainly two traffic modes, i.e. cars and buses, and travelers may not change their mode choices frequently.
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On the Net Neutrality Efficiency under Congestion Price Discrimination Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2020-07-28 Sahar Fekih Romdhane; Chokri Aloui; Khaïreddine Jebsi
In this paper, we study the extent to which net neutrality, defined as price non-discrimination, is welfare improving in comparison to non-net-neutrality. We consider a two-sided congested internet service provider (ISP) that acts as a monopoly platform. The congestion is basically caused by the overuse of the fixed ISP’s bandwidth by content providers. Unlike end-users, we allow content providers
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A Blood Bank Network Design Problem with Integrated Facility Location, Inventory and Routing Decisions Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2020-07-07 Onur Kaya; Dogus Ozkok
We aim to design an effective supply chain network for a blood distribution system to satisfy the needs of hospitals in a certain region. In the analyzed current system, each hospital keeps a certain level of inventory, received at certain time periods by the shipments from a main blood bank. We propose an alternative system, in which some of the hospitals are selected as local blood banks (LBB) and
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Arrival Time Reliability in Strategic User Equilibrium Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Michael W. Levin; Melissa Duell; S. Travis Waller
Although traffic assignment models remain heavily utilized globally for the planning and evaluation of new transport infrastructure, commonly applied assignment approaches continue to make very restrictive assumptions regarding determinism and perfect system knowledge to achieve regional scalability. Strategic user equilibrium (StrUE) has been previously proposed as a computationally scalable network
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Nonlinear Decision Rule Approach for Real-Time Traffic Signal Control for Congestion and Emission Mitigation Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Junwoo Song; Simon Hu; Ke Han; Chaozhe Jiang
We propose a real-time signal control framework based on a nonlinear decision rule (NDR), which defines a nonlinear mapping between network states and signal control parameters to actual signal controls based on prevailing traffic conditions, and such a mapping is optimized via off-line simulation. The NDR is instantiated with two neural networks: feedforward neural network (FFNN) and recurrent neural
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Origin-Destination Demand Reconstruction Using Observed Travel Time under Congested Network Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2020-03-31 Chao Sun; Yulin Chang; Xin Luan; Qiang Tu; Wenyun Tang
Two bi-level models to reconstruct origin-destination (O-D) demand under congested network are explored in terms of the observed link and route travel times, where one model inputs the known trajectories of observed route travel times and the other model uses both known and unknown trajectories of observed route travel times. The proposed models leverage both the link and route traffic information
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Pareto-Optimal Sustainable Transportation Network Design under Spatial Queuing Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2020-03-30 Wei Huang; Guangming Xu; Hong K. Lo
This paper presents a multi-objective network design problem with environmental considerations for urban networks with queues. A spatial queuing link model is introduced to take account of the spatial effect of queuing. With this more realistic link performance function capturing spatial queuing, the network equilibrium flow patterns can be more accurately identified. Furthermore, to better estimate
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Residential Location Econometric Choice Modeling with Irregular Zoning: Common Border Spatial Correlation Metric Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2020-03-20 José-Benito Pérez-López; Margarita Novales; Francisco-Alberto Varela-García; Alfonso Orro
Residential location choice (RLC) predicts where and how people choose their residential location in the framework of land use–transport interaction models (LUTI). This paper seeks an efficient RLC model in the context of irregular zoning of location alternatives. The main current proposals in the field are discrete choice models. In RLC modeling, the alternatives are spatial units, and spatially correlated
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Sustainable Management of Remanufacturing in Dynamic Supply Chains Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2020-03-13 Sung Hoon Chung; Robert D. Weaver; Hyun Woo Jeon
Closed-loop production systems encompass all processes for returning, remanufacturing, recycling, discarding, and repackaging products. These elements form the core of sustainable manufacturing by managing what otherwise would be waste to enable reuse and by controlling its associated pollution. This paper presents the general management model of sustainable remanufacturing within a dynamic closed-loop
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Multi-Trip Time-Dependent Vehicle Routing Problem with Soft Time Windows and Overtime Constraints Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2020-01-24 Ampol Karoonsoontawong; Puntipa Punyim; Wanvara Nueangnitnaraporn; Vatanavongs Ratanavaraha
The multi-trip time-dependent vehicle routing problem with soft time windows and overtime constraints (MT-TDVRPSTW-OT) is considered in this paper. The modified hierarchical multi-objective formulation and the equivalent single-objective formulation are proposed. The iterative multi-trip tour construction and improvement (IMTTCI) procedure and the single-trip tour counterpart procedure with post-processing
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Synchronizing Last Trains of Urban Rail Transit System to Better Serve Passengers from Late Night Trains of High-Speed Railway Lines Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2020-01-24 Sihui Long; Lingyun Meng; Jianrui Miao; Xin Hong; Francesco Corman
Synchronizing last trains of Urban Rail Transit (URT) system is important for passenger transportation, especially for travelers from other modes, such as high-speed railway (HSR) trains in late night, to reach their destinations. This paper develops a bi-objective mixed-integer linear programming model for the problem of Last-Train Timetable Synchronization (LTTS) of URT system in late night hours
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Spatial Autocorrelation Panel Regression: Agricultural Production and Transport Connectivity Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2020-01-17 Atsushi Iimi; Liangzhi You; Ulrike Wood-Sichra
Transport infrastructure is an important determinant of agricultural productivity. Using various new spatial data, the paper measures different types of transport accessibility and estimates their impacts in Ethiopia. The paper takes advantage of a historical event that Ethiopia, a landlocked country, ceased freight rail operations connecting its capital and the main seaport in the late 2000s. Using
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A Dynamic Hierarchical Bayesian Model for the Estimation of day-to-day Origin-destination Flows in Transportation Networks Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2020-01-04 Anselmo Ramalho Pitombeira-Neto; Carlos Felipe Grangeiro Loureiro; Luis Eduardo Carvalho
Estimation of origin-destination (OD) flows in transportation networks is a major step in transportation planning. We are interested in estimating OD flows given data on traffic link volumes over a sequence of days. We propose a dynamic hierarchical Bayesian model for the estimation of day-to-day OD flows. At the first level, we specify a dynamic Gaussian model which describes the evolution of OD flows
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An Expanded Bipartite Network Projection Algorithm for Measuring Cities’ Connections in Service Firm Networks Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-12-13 Miaoxi Zhao; Ben Derudder; Pingcheng Zhang; Peiqian Zhong
We develop and apply an expanded algorithm for measuring urban connectivity through the lens of the location strategies of producer services firms. Although our algorithm is broadly in the spirit of Taylor’s (Geographical Analysis 33(2):181–194, Taylor 2001) interlocking network model, we contend that it takes on board more of the information contained in the location decisions of producer services
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Location-Price Competition with Delivered Pricing and Elastic Demand Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-11-27 Phillip J. Lederer
In the past, implementing delivered pricing has been perceived as unrealistic because of practical difficulties in distinguishing between customers, determining an individual’s willingness to pay, and setting different prices to individuals. The rise of e-commerce has introduced the possibility of doing all three. Competitive location with delivered pricing was studied by Lederer and Hurter (1986)
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Disruptions in Spatial Networks: a Comparative Study of Major Shocks Affecting Ports and Shipping Patterns Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-11-22 Laure Rousset; César Ducruet
In this research, the effect of local exogenous shocks on seaports and maritime networks is assessed throughout three case-studies. The Hanshin-Awaji earthquake, the 9/11 World Trade Center attack and hurricane Katrina triggered a shock on Kobe, New York and New Orleans respectively and led to temporary port failures. A global database on vessel movements is computed to gauge the intensity, duration
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Retraction Note: Appraisal of Science and Economic Factors on Total Number of Granted Patents Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-11-12 Dušan Marković
The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article (Marković 2018) because validity of the content of this article cannot be verified.
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Bounding the Inefficiency of the Reliability-Based Continuous Network Design Problem Under Cost Recovery Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-10-10 Anny B. Wang; W. Y. Szeto
This study defines the price of anarchy for general reliability-based transport network design problems, which is an indicator of inefficiency that reveals how much the design objective value exceeds its theoretical minimum value due to the risk averse and selfish routing behavior of travelers. This study examines a new problem, which is a reliability-based continuous network design problem under cost
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The Follower Competitive Location Problem with Comparison-Shopping Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-09-11 Vladimir Marianov; H. A. Eiselt; Armin Lüer-Villagra
In competitive settings, firms locate their stores to take advantage of consumers’ behavior to maximize their market share. A common behavior is comparison-shopping: in this behavioral pattern, consumers visit multiple stores that sell non-identical products, which are mutual substitutes, before making their purchase decision. This behavior has never been included in location-prescribing models for
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Path-Based Dynamic User Equilibrium Model with Applications to Strategic Transportation Planning Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-09-09 Babak Javani; Abbas Babazadeh
This study proposes an analytical capacity constrained dynamic traffic assignment (DTA) model along with an efficient path-based algorithm. The model can be applied to analyzing dynamic traffic demand management (TDM) strategies, but its specific feature is allowing for an evaluation of advanced traveler information systems (ATIS) within the strategic transportation planning framework. It is an extension
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Reliable p-Hub Network Design under Multiple Disruptions Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-09-05 Pouya Barahimi; Hector A. Vergara
The design of optimal hub-and-spoke networks has been the objective of many research studies. More recently, several studies in this area have been concerned with incorporating failures of network entities (e.g., hubs and/or links) as a source of uncertainty in the formulation and solution of reliable hub networks. This study is focused on modeling and developing a solution approach for the multi-allocation
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Airport Road Access at Planet Scale using Population Grid and Openstreetmap Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-09-04 Xiaoqian Sun; Sebastian Wandelt; Mark Hansen
A new comparative framework for estimating the road access of airports around the world at high resolution is proposed. While existing studies are spatially constrained and often require hand-collection of data, this framework relies on freely available datasets at planet scale: Population density database Gridded Population of the World and transportation infrastructure database Openstreetmap. Access
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Comparison of Bus Network Structures in Face of Urban Dispersion for a Ring-Radial City Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-09-03 Hugo Badia
This paper extends the discussion about the bus network design in face of the mobility patterns associated with different degrees of urban dispersion. Based on an analytical approach, a comparison of total costs among different network structures is made for a ring-radial city, which is the other most common regular city layout. The results clarify what structure is the best solution for different
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Discovering the Hidden Community Structure of Public Transportation Networks Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-08-20 László Hajdu; András Bóta; Miklós Krész; Alireza Khani; Lauren M. Gardner
Advances in public transit modeling and smart card technologies can reveal detailed contact patterns of passengers. A natural way to represent such contact patterns is in the form of networks. In this paper we utilize known contact patterns from a public transit assignment model in a major metropolitan city, and propose the development of two novel network structures, each of which elucidate certain
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Evolution of Regional Innovation with Spatial Knowledge Spillovers: Convergence or Divergence? Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-08-08 Jinwen Qiu; Wenjian Liu; Ning Ning
This paper extends endogenous economic growth models to incorporate knowledge externality. We explore whether spatial knowledge spillovers among regions exist, whether spatial knowledge spillovers promote regional innovative activities, and whether external knowledge spillovers affect the evolution of regional innovations in the long run. We empirically verify the theoretical results through applying
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Optimizing Traffic System Performance with Environmental Constraints: Tolls and/or Additional Delays Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-08-03 Xin Lin; Chris M. J. Tampère; Stef Proost
Environmental concerns are increasingly important targets in urban traffic management. The way traffic spreads over routes in a network can affect substantially the environments well as the level of congestion. This paper explores the selection and location of control measures that influence route choice aimed at optimizing traffic system performance subject to environmental constraints (OSP-EC problems)
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Optimal Deployment of Electric Bicycle Sharing Stations: Model Formulation and Solution Technique Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-07-23 Zhiwei Chen; Yucong Hu; Jutint Li; Xing Wu
This paper studies the problem of deploying electric bicycle (e-bike) sharing stations and determining their capacities, i.e. the number of shared e-bikes and charging piles, considering travelers’ responses to the charging demands and different deployment schemes. Given a one-way station-based setting, we propose an e-bike sharing network where the generalized trip cost is measured as the sum of the
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A Kernel Search Matheuristic to Solve The Discrete Leader-Follower Location Problem Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-07-11 Dolores R. Santos-Peñate; Clara M. Campos-Rodríguez; José A. Moreno-Pérez
In the leader-follower, (r|p)-centroid or Stackelberg location problem, two players sequentially enter the market and compete to provide goods or services. This paper considers this competitive facility location problem in a discrete space. To solve it, the linear programming formulations for the leader and the follower are integrated into an algorithm which, in an iterative process, finds a solution
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Micro and Macro Resilience Measures of an Economic Crisis Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-05-30 Cristina Bernini; Maria Francesca Cracolici; Peter Nijkamp
Using Italian Households Budget Survey data over the period 1997-2013, a Cragg model in a life-cycle context is specified to compare the consumption behaviour in the pre- and post-crisis time and develop different micro and macro measures of resilience against crisis shocks. Cohort profiles for participation in and for consumption of tourism services in the pre- and post-crisis time are determined
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Impact of Weather Conditions and Built Environment on Public Bikesharing Trips in Beijing Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-05-15 Pengfei Lin; Jiancheng Weng; Quan Liang; Dimitrios Alivanistos; Siyong Ma
As bicycling regains popularity around the world, the Beijing Public Bikesharing System, launched in 2012, enables users to access shared bicycles for short trips. After five years of operation, while the system is widely used, it faces the problems of bike unavailability and dock shortage at various stations due to the tidal characteristics of bicycle travel. It is necessary to investigate the influence
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Optimal Guidance Algorithms for Parking Search with Reservations Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-05-09 Michael W. Levin; Stephen D. Boyles
To alleviate the congestion caused by searching for parking, internet- or smartphone-based parking reservation systems have been deployed in major cities. We develop algorithms to provide optimal guidance to individual drivers on where to search for or reserve parking and how to navigate the traffic while searching for parking, a problem which has yet to be addressed in the literature. Drivers holding
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Urban Activity Mining Framework for Ride Sharing Systems Based on Vehicular Social Networks Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-05-07 Bilong Shen; Weimin Zheng; Kathleen M. Carley
Ride sharing has been widely studied over the past several decades as a means of reducing traffic and pollution by utilizing empty car seats in vehicles that are being driven no matter what. As they increase in popularity, ride sharing applications have already encountered several challenges: Vehicle allocation, price strategy, and route planning, are just a few such examples among many. Tracking human
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Moving Towards a More Accurate Level of Inspection Against Fare Evasion in Proof-of-Payment Transit Systems Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-05-02 Benedetto Barabino; Sara Salis
This paper proposes an accurate economic framework to determine the optimum inspection level—the number of ticket inspectors—in a long time window, in order to maximize the system-wide profit when fare evasion occurs. This is the first framework that introduces: i) a refined characterization of the passenger demand, ii) a profit function with new constraints, iii) an alternative estimation of the percentage
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Application of Complex Networks Theory in Urban Traffic Network Researches Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-05-01 Rui Ding; Norsidah Ujang; Hussain Bin Hamid; Mohd Shahrudin Abd Manan; Rong Li; Safwan Subhi Mousa Albadareen; Ashkan Nochian; Jianjun Wu
Complex network theory is a multidisciplinary research direction of complexity science which has experienced a rapid surge of interest over the last two decades. Its applications in land-based urban traffic network studies have been fruitful, but have suffered from the lack of a systematic cognitive and integration framework. This paper reviews complex network theory related knowledge and discusses
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Dynamic Passenger Assignment for Major Railway Disruptions Considering Information Interventions Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-04-30 Yongqiu Zhu; Rob M. P. Goverde
Passenger assignment models for major disruptions that require trains to be cancelled/short-turned in railway systems are rarely considered in literature, although these models could make a significant contribution to passenger-oriented disruption timetable design/rescheduling. This paper proposes a dynamic passenger assignment model, where the passengers who start travelling before, during and after
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Range-Constrained Traffic Assignment with Multi-Modal Recharge for Electric Vehicles Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-04-16 Xiang Zhang; David Rey; S. Travis Waller; Nathan Chen
Plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) are sustainable alternatives to internal combustion engine vehicles thanks to the use of environmentally-friendly electric energy and the reduction of off-gas emissions. One of the major concerns associated with the adoption of PEVs is the distance limit, i.e. the fact that PEVs may not be able to complete trips without recharging. In this study, we propose to model
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Computation of Multi-facility Location Nash Equilibria on a Network Under Quantity Competition Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-03-25 Blas Pelegrín; Pascual Fernández; María Dolores García
We deal with the location-quantity problem for competing firms when they locate multiple facilities and offer the same type of product. Competition is performed under delivered quantities that are sent from the facilities to the customers. This problem is reduced to a location game when the competing firms deliver the Cournot equilibrium quantities. While existence conditions for a Nash equilibrium
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World City Networks Shaped by the Global Financing of Chinese Firms: A Study Based on Initial Public Offerings of Chinese Firms on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, 1999-2017 Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-03-23 Fenghua Pan; Ziyun He; Cheng Fang; Bofei Yang; Jinshe Liang
Advanced producer service (APS) firms play key roles in the initial public offerings (IPOs) of firms in stock markets. Based on interfirm service relationships between APS firms and their clients in the IPOs of Chinese firms in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx) in the period 1999–2017, this study explores how world city networks are shaped in the global financing activities of Chinese firms. The
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Short-Term Land use Planning and Optimal Subsidies Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-03-15 L. M. Briceño-Arias; F. Martínez
Urban planning is a complex problem which includes choosing a social objective for a city, finding the associated optimal allocation of agents and identifying instruments like subsidies to decentralize this allocation as a market equilibrium. We split the problem in two independent steps. First, we find the short-term optimal allocation for a social objective and, second, we derive subsidies that reproduce
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A comparison of Euclidean Distance, Travel Times, and Network Distances in Location Choice Mixture Models Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-03-13 Sabina Buczkowska; Nicolas Coulombel; Matthieu de Lapparent
This article investigates the selection of a distance measure in location modeling. While in the empirical literature the choice usually boils down to picking one single measure, this research proposes a flexible approach in which several measures may be used in parallel to capture the surrounding economic landscape. This is intended to acknowledge that interactions between agents may take several
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A Bicriteria Perspective on L -Penalty Approaches – a Corrigendum to Siddiqui and Gabriel’s L -Penalty Approach for Solving MPECs Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-02-28 Kerstin Dächert; Sauleh Siddiqui; Javier Saez-Gallego; Steven A. Gabriel; Juan Miguel Morales
This paper presents a corrigendum to Theorems 2 and 3 in Siddiqui and Gabriel (Netw Spatial Econ 13(2):205–227, 2013). In brief, we revise the claim that their L-penalty approach yields a solution satisfying complementarity for any positive value of L, in general. This becomes evident when interpreting the L-penalty method as a weighted-sum scalarization of a bicriteria optimization problem. We also
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Network Structure and Dynamics of Chinese Regional Incubation Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-02-23 Haiyan Li; Yong Tang
In recent years, the structure of incubation networks has attracted much attention. However, the intricacy of network has limited the discussions on its structure and dynamics. Information theory is employed as a model independent approach, which is capable of overcoming these obstacles. Information flows between different regions are calculated with the help of the transfer entropy methodology. Moreover
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Subnetwork Origin-Destination Matrix Estimation Under Travel Demand Constraints Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-02-22 Chao Sun; Yulin Chang; Yuji Shi; Lin Cheng; Jie Ma
This paper proposes a subnetwork origin-destination (OD) matrix estimation model under travel demand constraints (SME-DC) that explicitly considers both internal-external subnetwork connections and OD demand consistency between the subnetwork and full network. This new model uses the maximum entropy of OD demands as the objective function and uses the total traffic generations (attractions) along with
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Exclusive Bus Lane Network Design: A Perspective from Intersection Operational Dynamics Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-02-22 Jing Zhao; Jie Yu; Xiaomei Xia; Jingru Ye; Yun Yuan
Exclusive bus lanes have demonstrated their effectiveness in increasing capacity and efficiency. However, when discussing the optimal design of exclusive bus lanes at the network level, existing studies predominantly focus on the interaction between transit and private vehicles at the links, while operational dynamics at the intersections and their impacts were insufficiently addressed. This paper
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Impacts of Public Transport Policy on City Size and Welfare Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-02-20 Walid Chatti; Bassem Ben Soltane; Turki Abalala
This paper introduces a clear distinction between interregional and intraregional transportation cost in a mixed New Economic Geography and Urban Economics model (Krugman and Livas Elizondo 1996; Martin and Rogers 1995). With the assumptions that public spending on transport infrastructure has some different effects on city size and welfare, and that it is financed by a proportional tax on regional
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Origin-Destination Matrix Estimation Problem in a Markov Chain Approach Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-02-19 Maryam Abareshi; Mehdi Zaferanieh; Mohammad Reza Safi
In this paper, a Markov chain origin-destination matrix estimation problem is investigated in which the average time between two incoming streams to or outgoing streams from nodes in consecutive time periods is considered as a Markov chain. Along with, a normal distribution with pre-determined parameters in each period is considered for traffic counts on links. A bi-level programming problem is introduced
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Socio-Economic Determinants of Student Mobility and Inequality of Access to Higher Education in Italy Netw. Spat. Econ. (IF 2.379) Pub Date : 2019-02-12 Umut Türk
This paper introduces a modified version of the Hansen-gravity model as a framework to estimate the accessibility of higher education (HE) institutions in Italy from equal opportunities perspective. The fundamental assumption underlying gravity models is that accessibility decreases with spatial distance from opportunities. The paper extends the gravity equation to include socio-economic factors influencing
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