Calculating where America should invest in its transportation and communications networks
Thursday, April 20, 2017 - 07:32
in Mathematics & Economics
The American economy is underpinned by networks. Road networks carry traffic and freight; the internet and telecommunications networks carry our voices and digital information; the electricity grid is a network carrying energy; financial networks transfer money from bank accounts to merchants. They're vast, often global systems – but a local disruption can really block them up.