Entropy in Urban and Regional Modelling (Routledge Revivals)

Informationen zum Autor A. G. Wilson Klappentext This investigation into entropy in urban and regional modelling provides an extensive and detailed insight into the entropy maximising method in the development of a whole class of urban and regional models. Zusammenfassung First published in 1970, this groundbreaking investigation into Entropy in Urban and Regional Modelling provides an extensive and detailed insight into the entropy maximising method in the development of a whole class of urban and regional models. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. What is Entropy? 2. Transport Models: The Theory of Trip Distribution! Mode Split and Route Split 3. Interrogational Commodity Flows 4. Location Models 5. Problems of Missing or Additional Information in Flow or Location Models 6. The Use of Entropy in the Analysis of Utility-Maximising Systems 7. Entropy! Social Physics and General Systems Theory 8. Some Conclusions

Product details

• Authors: Alan Wilson, Alan (University College London Wilson, Wilson Alan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.10.2011
• EAN: 9780415695640
• ISBN: 978-0-415-69564-0
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Routledge Revivals; Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Human Geography, Regional Geography