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@MISC{Xie08networkgrowth,
author = {Feng Xie},
title = {Network Growth and Ownership Organization},
year = {2008}
}
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Abstract
This dissertation explores transportation development and models the evolutionary growth of transportation networks including its determining factors. In particular, it examines the organization of ownership in the provision of transportation infrastructure as a pivotal driving factor. A series of stand-alone studies is dedicated to a comprehensive examination of network growth and ownership structure from different approaches analytically, empirically, and in simulation. The analytical model presents a game-theoretic analysis of centralized versus decentralized governance choice on a serial road network. It reveals that, depending on the tradeoff between the benefits and costs associated with alternative decision-making processes, governance choice reflects constituents’ collective spending preferences on infrastructure, and may spontaneously shift as the network improves over time. Empirical studies on Minneapolis skyways and Indiana Interurbans examine the expansion of transportation networks as a discrete sequence of link additions over time. Both studies suggest that the deployment of a network has to some extent followed
