2012•Journal of Architecture and Planning (Transactions of AIJ)Open access

STUDY ON THREE-DIMENSIONAL URBAN FORM WHICH MINIMIZES TRAVEL COST

Takehiro Kondo, Tohru Yoshikawa

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The purpose of this article is to obtain the optimum urban form when compact city system is formed. This article assumed that the hierarchical district centers and transportation system are formed according to the stage of life needs. As a result, the optimum urban form that minimizes travel costs shows the following characteristics. First, it has a population density decreasing by a stable fraction with distance from the district centers. Second, the urban area is determined by the ratio of vertical travel cost to horizontal one and the distance between district centers.

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Key concepts: Compact city, Travel time, Transport engineering, Horizontal and vertical, Fraction (chemistry), Population, Geography, Mathematics