Loss and damage caused by unscheduled events, especially earthquakes, have sudden and significant impacts not only on the region's economy where the event occurs but also on other regions. The New Madrid Seismic Zone, located in the center of the United States, could have great impacts on...

This article estimates and evaluates the economic impacts from a catastrophic earthquake within regional and national contexts, emphasising the inter-industry relationship in conjunction with regional commodity flows and the assessment of seismic damages on a transportation network. The...

I Urban Form, Functions and Structure -- 1 Urban Systems and Systems Analysis -- 2 Determinants of Urban Structure -- II Linear Programming Models and Applications -- 3 Integrated Urban Systems Model I -- 4 An Application: Zoning for a Metropolis -- III Nonlinear Programming Models And...

Transportation and communications networks are tremendously important for location, economic efficiency, mobility and welfare. At the same time there is a growing consensus about the negative environmental impacts of transport. A strategy for sustainable spatial systems is one of the most urgent...

This book's focus is on modeling procedures and applications of integrated models to the analysis of real world problems. The models are actually applied to analyses of policy issues in Korea, where a strong mixed economic system prevails. The main thesis of this book is that the characteristics...

A combined transportation-land use model is proposed in this paper. Unlike other existing urban land use and transportation planning models in which a "fixed demand" for services is assumed to be known at the zonal level of an urban area, zonal travel demand is endogenously determined together...