Governance Choice - A Simulation Model

Feng Xie () and David Levinson
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Feng Xie: Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Chapter Chapter 14 in Evolving Transportation Networks, 2011, pp 199-221 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract An electrical engineer in training, Paul Baran joined the RAND Corporation in 1959. While working at RAND on a scheme for U.S. telecommunications infrastructure to survive a “first strike,” he conceived of the Internet and digital packet switching, the Internet’s underlying data communications technology. Using minicomputer technology of the day, Baran (1964) demonstrated in a simulation suite that a distributed packet switched communications network can better withstand massive destruction to individual components than centralized or decentralized networks. Baran’s conceptual drawings in Figure 14.1 serve as a vivid example of the distinctly different network patterns under centralized versus decentralized control.

Keywords: Road Network; Transportation Network; Travel Demand; Toll Rate; Spatial Accessibility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-9804-0_14

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