Optimal networks for mass transportation problems

Alessio Brancolini; Giuseppe Buttazzo

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations (2010)

  • Volume: 11, Issue: 1, page 88-101
  • ISSN: 1292-8119

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In the framework of transport theory, we are interested in the following optimization problem: given the distributions µ+ of working people and µ- of their working places in an urban area, build a transportation network (such as a railway or an underground system) which minimizes a functional depending on the geometry of the network through a particular cost function. The functional is defined as the Wasserstein distance of µ+ from µ- with respect to a metric which depends on the transportation network.

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Brancolini, Alessio, and Buttazzo, Giuseppe. "Optimal networks for mass transportation problems." ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations 11.1 (2010): 88-101. <http://eudml.org/doc/90758>.

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author = {Brancolini, Alessio, Buttazzo, Giuseppe},
journal = {ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations},
keywords = {Optimal networks; mass transportation problems.; Monge-Kantorovich problem; optimal transportation; optimal transportation networks; mass transfer},
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title = {Optimal networks for mass transportation problems},
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