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Implicit in all location and land use problems, as in the rest of spatial economics, are flows of traded commodities, commuters, migrants, or of immaterial influences, such as the diffusion of innovations or business cycles.

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Puu, T. (2003). Optimal Routes. In: Mathematical Location and Land Use Theory. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24785-2_3

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