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In the short run a transportation network is in place and the question is: how its capacity should be utilized. In the long run we are interested in the structure and location of the transportation networks.

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Beckmann, M.J. (1999). Transportation Systems. In: Lectures on Location Theory. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03762-1_13

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