ON THE POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE TRANSPORT NETWORK OF A MODERN METROPOLIS
Uniform principles and rules for building cities have almost never existed. What (in a geometric sense) a settlement should be depends on many disparate factors. Both the landscape component and the transport and resource factors play a role. In the presence of natural barriers (forests, mountains), it has long been much more convenient for a person to arrange his dwelling in a flatter part. The presence of rivers has always attracted residents - it is both a source of food and an important transport hub, where there is always work. Mining districts were built around a source of resources and, of course, work. Almost never has urbanization been repelled by the principle of transport planning. Such cases are isolated and only confirm the general trend. Urban infrastructure is a dynamically developing and changing object. The extensive path of development involves the expansion of the existing boundaries of the urban agglomeration, that is, the development "in breadth". Intensive, in its essence, has the use of technological progress, the improvement of existing facilities, the use of technical progress for development. The extensive method may be less effective, but sometimes it is one of the important directions of development, without which further intensive development cannot be continued. One of the urgent problems that can be partially resolved using the extensive method of city development is the problem of the congestion of the transport system. The expansion of the city implies the expansion of road routes, and as a result, the reduction in load and the distribution of traffic flows along the road network