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1992

Alternative road systems

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Alternative Road Networks For A South Dakota Township, Charles Lamberton Jun 1992

Alternative Road Networks For A South Dakota Township, Charles Lamberton

Economics Research Reports

The network of roads within any defined region is necessarily connected to the network of each adjacent region. Therefore, sections of road which might be added to, or deleted from, the existing network can result in changes in consumers' travel and routing and their use of the remaining network. This can result in significant changes in the costs and benefits of the network for consumers and major changes in the cost of supplying the road network services. The study of the adequacy of a rural road network is therefore necessarily a study of a complex, interdependent system. Consideration of the …