Letter to the Editor---Polar and Rectangular Road Networks for Circular Cities

E. M. Holroyd
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E. M. Holroyd: Road Research Laboratory, Crowthorne, Berks, U.K.

Transportation Science, 1969, vol. 3, issue 1, 86-87

Abstract: The main purpose of this note is to point out that the conclusion that the polar network gives shorter average distances than the rectangular network may be extended to any city possessing circular symmetry in which origins and destinations of journeys are distributed independently.

Date: 1969
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