Systems Models for Transportation Problems. Volume IV:The Development of Urban Dynamics and Its Possible Regulation.

摘要

The kinds of extant modeling are reviewed; a hard social physics is outlined; a theory is developed for the thermostatic state of complex systems (here,the social system),using the United States and some American cities, a first round estimate is made of the thermostatic state;the underlying potentials that govern the spatial character of a settlement are outlined; a theory of technological growth is proposed;and the means by which the transport fluxes are related to the potentials are suggested. This closes an introduction to the physics of society and how it may be used for regulation and control; e.g.,transportation design.