Optimum Control in Nonlinear Ecological Dynamics of Metropolitan Areas

D S Dendrinos and H Mullally
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D S Dendrinos: Department of Economics, University of Missouri-St Louis, St Louis, MO 63121, USA, and Southern Pacific Transportation Company, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA
H Mullally: Graduate Program in Urban Planning, School of Architecture and Urban Design, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA

Environment and Planning A, 1983, vol. 15, issue 4, 543-550

Abstract: After an ecological-type formulation of single-city aggregate urban dynamics, the optimum time trajectory of such a system is analyzed. A set of models are discussed which use different objective functions, and it is shown that erratic on-off switches of the urban controls are the optimum strategies under any type of objective function. Solutions for the optimum timing of bang-bang-type application of any specific urban policy instrument would need to be determined numerically.

Date: 1983
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