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It is quite understandable that the actual hierarchy of settlements puts strong restrictions on the type of optimal (minimal cost) transportation flows between settlements. In turn, the spatial and temporal stability of transportation flows may be an essential factor of growth or decline of an individual settlement in the hierarchy. Moreover, usually the optimal transportation flow does not cover all linkages of the transportation network between settlements. Therefore, the existence of structurally stable optimal transportation flows can result in a change in the transportation network itself, at the expense of non-used links.
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Sonis, M. (1986). Transportation Flows Within Central-Place Systems. In: Griffith, D.A., Haining, R.P. (eds) Transformations Through Space and Time. NATO ASI Series, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4430-5_5
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