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Calculating where America should invest in its transportation and communications networks

  • Written by Anna Nagurney, John F. Smith Memorial Professor of Operations Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst
imageWhich links are most important in road and information networks?Sahacha Nilkumhang/Shutterstock.com

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...

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