文档介绍：Transportation Research, Economics and Policy
Feng Xie • David M. Levinson
Evolving Transportation
Networks
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Feng Xie David M. Levinson
Metropolitan Washington Council University of Minnesota
of Governments Department of Civil Engineering
Washington, . 500 Pillsbury Drive SE
USA Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
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David Gillen
Werner Rothengatter
ISSN 1572-4387
ISBN 978-1-4419-9803-3 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-9804-0
DOI -1-4419-9804-0
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For and our newborn son Eric.
Feng Xie
For Samuel, Olivia, and Benjamin.
David Levinson
Preface
I first started thinking systematically about the evolution of works
in the early 1990s when I was a transportation planner at the Montgomery County
(Maryland) Planning Department working with the group developing a regional
travel demand forecasting model. My job involved developing a new generation
of travel demand forecasting models, predicting the number of ing into
and out of each area, matching trip origins