[fre] Cet article étudie la localisation d'une firme néo-classique sur un réseau de transport. On y montre que certains points remarquables, à savoir les nœuds et les lieux de marché, sont souvent les candidats naturels à l'implantation de la firme. [eng] The location of a firm on a...

This paper proposes an empirical analysis of the sensitivity of Discrete Choice Model (DCM) to the size of the spatial units used as choice set (which relates to the well-known Modifiable Areal Unit Problem). Job's location choices in Brussels (Belgium) are used as the case study. DCMs are...

The impact of transportation networks on the location of human activities is a surprisingly neglected topic in economic geography. Using the simple plant location problem, this paper investigates such an impact in the case of a few idealized networks. It is seen that a grid network tends to...

This paper aims at showing how far the shape of a studied area influences the results of optimal location-allocation models. Simulations are performed on rectangular toy-networks with an equal number of vertices but with different length/width ratios. The case of merging two such networks into a...

In this paper, an urban economic model of residential location is combined with multifractal geometry (Sierpinski carpet) in order to model and analyse the spatial structure of a metropolitan area. This area is made of an urban system organised hierarchically around a central CBD, as well as of...

Les 30 dernières années ont montré le développement d'un nouveau type de développement urbain en France, appelé périurbanisation. Une ceinture périurbaine est située hors d'une ville et elle est occupée à la fois par des ménages et par des agriculteurs. Les auteurs proposent un...

Individuals with heterogeneous incomes occupy a territory divided into zones with unequal levels of amenities. Using the concept of land rent à la Ricardo, we propose a model determining the land rent in the different zones as well as the distribution of individuals across them. A land tax...

Une communauté e d'individus h ét érog ene en terme de revenus occupe un territoire divis e en zones caract eris ées par des niveaux d'am enit es di fferents. Partant du concept de rente a la Ricardo, nous proposons un mod èle determinant les rentes o ffertes dans les diff erentes zones et...

This paper presents a microeconomic model of residential location that explores the emergence of a mixed belt where residents and farmers coexist beyond a city. The model is based on integrating urban economics with cellular automata in order to simulate equilibrium patterns in 2D and through...

Individuals with heterogeneous incomes occupy a territory divided into zones with unequal levels of amenities. Using the concept of land rent à la Ricardo, we propose a model determining the land rent in the different zones as well as the distribution of individuals across them. A land tax...