On the Relationship between Alonso's Theory of Movement and Wilson's Family of Spatial-Interaction Models

Bibliographic Data

ID4142887
AuthorsJacques Ledent (0000-0001-5827-6905, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, corresponding author)
Year1981
Volume13
Issue2
Pages217-224
Publication date1981-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/a130217
OpenAlexW1982962972
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited2

This paper compares the system of equations underlying Alonso's theory of movement with that of Wilson's standard family of spatial-interaction models. It is shown that the Alonso model is equivalent to one of Wilson's four standard models depending on the assumption at the outset about which of the total outflows and/or inflows are known. This result turns out to supersede earlier findings-inconsistent only in appearance-which were derived independently by Wilson and Ledent. In addition to this, an original contribution of this paper-obtained as a byproduct of the process leading to the aforementioned result-is to provide an exact methodology permitting one to solve the Alonso model for each possible choice of the input data

Geography · Mathematical economics · Mathematics · Philosophy · Traffic control and management · Transportation Planning and Optimization

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