Re: New high speed rail line proposed

Graeme Wall wrote:
[1] A model for estimating the ratio of traffic between pairs of
towns/cities is to multiply the population of two towns, and divide by
the square of the distance between them.

How is the distance measured? Because you will get wildly different results
depending on whether you use miles, kilometres, furlongs or millimetres.

The *ratios* don't change, though.


Neil Sunderland
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