SOME REMARKS ON WILSON'S GRAVITY MODEL AND A SLIGHT GENERALIZATION OF IT

The aim of this note is to establish some connections between Wilson's gravity model, Jaynes' principle of maximum entropy, Kullback's divergence, Watanabe's measure of connection, the minimum information principle of snickars and Weibull and Guiasu's principle of minimum interdependence as a special form of Kullback's minimum divergence. A slight generalization of Wilson's gravity model is proposed. (Author/TRRL)

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• Authors:
  • Guiasu, S
  • Vermot-desroches, B
• Publication Date: 1983-8

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 333-337
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
  • Volume: 17B
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0191-2615
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01912615

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Costs; Entropy (Communications); Gravity models; Origin and destination; Physical distribution; Probability; Traffic distribution; Transportation; Travel
• Uncontrolled Terms: Interdependence
• Old TRIS Terms: Divergence
• ITRD Terms: 224: Cost; 9016: Distribution (gen); 690: Gravity model; 698: Journey; 687: Origin destination traffic; 6534: Probability; 1155: Transport
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Transportation (General); I71: Traffic Theory;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00379844
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-035 764
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 30 1984 12:00AM