Martin Joseph Beckmann (5 July 1924,

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– 11 April 2017) was a professor for Economics and Applied Mathematics. He was professor at the

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and

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, as well as the

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and

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. He received honorary degrees from the

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, the

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and the University of the Bundeswehr Hamburg. He was president of the

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and received the Regional Science Founders Medal in 1983. His research spans a wide field in

spatial analysis Spatial analysis is any of the formal Scientific technique, techniques which study entities using their topological, geometric, or geographic properties, primarily used in Urban design, Urban Design. Spatial analysis includes a variety of techni ...

and

regional economics Regional economics is a sub-discipline of economics and is often regarded as one of the fields of the social sciences. It addresses the economic aspect of the regional problems that are spatially analyzable so that theoretical or policy implicatio ...

, with a special focus on

transport economics Transport economics is a branch of economics founded in 1959 by American economist John R. Meyer that deals with the resource allocation, allocation of resources within the transport sector. It has strong links to civil engineering. Transport ec ...

.Papers in Regional Science, Volume 57, Number 1, 1-2, Martin Beckmann established basic principles for user behavior on congested transportation networks, as well as for optimal network vehicle flows, when user choices are respectively uncoordinated or coordinated. Beckmann’s contribution launched the new subfield of transportation network economics.

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Founder's medal: Martin J. Beckmann
{{DEFAULTSORT:Beckmanm, Martin J. 1924 births 2017 deaths German economists Brown University faculty Regional economists Fellows of the Econometric Society Helmut Schmidt University alumni German expatriate academics in the United States Yale University faculty University of Chicago faculty People from Ratingen

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