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A variational model for urban planning withtraffic congestion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2005

Guillaume Carlier
Affiliation:
Université Paris Dauphine, CEREMADE, UMR CNRS 7534, Pl. de Lattre de Tassigny, 75775 Paris Cedex 16, France; [email protected]
Filippo Santambrogio
Affiliation:
Scuola Normale Superiore, Classe di Scienze, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126, Pisa, Italy; [email protected]
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Abstract

We propose a variational model to describe the optimal distributions of residents and services in an urban area. The functional to be minimized involves an overall transportation cost taking into account congestion effects and two aditional terms which penalize concentration of residents and dispersion of services. We study regularity properties of the minimizers and treat in details some examples.

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Research Article
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© EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2005

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