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Yves
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Highway layout pattern
« on: Feb 17th, 2003, 8:36am » |
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I started wondering about this one while driving around, I have no clue as to what the solution may be (though I have a few ideas).
Consider current highway systems, where the optimal highway solution has the big cities with the most traffic connected by the smallest distance.
What if the population/traffic density is the same everywhere? In other words, if you had a surface, and the probability for someone to go from point a to point b within that surface was the same for all 'a' and 'b', and you could draw curves/lines on this surface that would diminish the cost of travelling from a to b, what would the curves look like, if you had to optimize for curve length?
Would it be a square grid? Triangles? Something else?
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Re: Highway layout pattern
« Reply #1 on: Feb 17th, 2003, 9:13am » |
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Take a look here
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How about supercalifragilisticexpialidociouspuzzler [Towr, 2007]
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