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Optimal networks for mass transportation problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 December 2004

Alessio Brancolini  and
Giuseppe Buttazzo
Alessio Brancolini
Affiliation:
Alessio Brancolini, Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy; a.brancolini@sns.it
Giuseppe Buttazzo
Affiliation:
Giuseppe Buttazzo, Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Pisa, Via Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy; buttazzo@dm.unipi.it
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Abstract

In the framework of transport theory, we are interested in the following optimization problem: given the distributions µ+ of working people and µ- of their working places in an urban area, build a transportation network (such as a railway or an underground system) which minimizes a functional depending on the geometry of the network through a particular cost function. The functional is defined as the Wasserstein distance of µ+ from µ- with respect to a metric which depends on the transportation network.

Keywords

Optimal networksmass transportation problems.

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ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , January 2005 , pp. 88 - 101
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© EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2005

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