Herbert and Stevens 6 developed a linear programming model to mimic an
Alonso-type location equilibrium. The objective function sought to maximize
the aggregate value of bid rent by assigning household types to locations,Ž .
subject to constraints on the supply of housing and on the number of households of each type. Wheaton 26 and Anderson 2 offered refinements of the
HerbertStevens model which could guarantee equilibrium. In Anderson’s
version, bid rent differences across locations will be constant and equal to
variations in travel and other spatial costs. Thus, the problem of bid rent
maximization under these circumstances is equivalent to one in which the