3. MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING
The models reviewed in this part have two characteristics in common. One is that they all rely on mathematical programming as a means of formulation. The other is that although these models can be used as predictive (or forecasting) tools their major usefulness is normative since they constitute frameworks for examining the correspondence between market equilibrium and optimum. Thus, they provide a basis for evaluating market failure and the efficiency of resource allocation. The relationship between equilibrium and optimum was examined in part one in the context of monocentric urban land use models but the models discussed in this part make generalizations to the context of a realistic zonal representation of an urban ...
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