Transportation and telecommunications networks have profound effects on location decisions of households, firms and of public facilities. Increasingly, such decisions depend on more than one network. Yet, most analyses focus on the land use implications of single networks. This paper suggests...

Rail is often advanced as an environmentally superior alternative to road transportation. A market segmentation analysis shows rail has a relative advantage in regular long distance trips to high density nodes. Yet, such trips are a limited and shrinking share of the total transport market....