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Governance Choice - A Simulation Model

In: Evolving Transportation Networks

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  • Feng Xie

    (Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments)

  • David M. Levinson

    (University of Minnesota)

Abstract

An electrical engineer in training, Paul Baran joined the RAND Corporation in 1959. While working at RAND on a scheme for U.S. telecommunications infrastructure to survive a “first strike,” he conceived of the Internet and digital packet switching, the Internet’s underlying data communications technology. Using minicomputer technology of the day, Baran (1964) demonstrated in a simulation suite that a distributed packet switched communications network can better withstand massive destruction to individual components than centralized or decentralized networks. Baran’s conceptual drawings in Figure 14.1 serve as a vivid example of the distinctly different network patterns under centralized versus decentralized control.

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  • Feng Xie & David M. Levinson, 2011. "Governance Choice - A Simulation Model," Transportation Research, Economics and Policy, in: Evolving Transportation Networks, chapter 0, pages 199-221, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:trachp:978-1-4419-9804-0_14
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-9804-0_14
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    1. Raimbault, Juste & Le Néchet, Florent, 2021. "Introducing endogenous transport provision in a LUTI model to explore polycentric governance systems," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 94(C).

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