This paper deals with the effects of cross-border transport infrastructure in the presence of agglomeration economies … increase urban primacy while cross-border transport connections tend to reduce it. Improvements in transport and communication …

creating a mathematical model describing the formation and distribution of the streams in the agglomeration transport network …The population of the Petersburg's city agglomeration on January 1, 2012 was about 5,9 million people, the territory … area -- 11,6 thousand km ². The borders, spatial and structural features of the Petersburg's city agglomeration are defined …

Traffic congestion alleviation has long been a common core transport policy objective, but it remains unclear under …