If all the people in the United States were to be assembled at one place, the center
of population would be the point which they could reach with the minimum aggregate
travel, assuming that they all travelled in direct lines from their residence
to the meeting place.
After correspondence in 1926 between the Census Bureau, the American Statistical
Association, and a group of interested people, the Census Bureau fixed the problem by
taking out references to the minimum aggregate travel [4].
Although the population center of the Census Bureau is not the hub we are looking
for, it is interesting nevertheless to understand how it is calculated. This description
comes from [13] and is the method used for the censuses from 1950 to the most recent
one in 2000. The center of population is given as a pair of numbers ( ¯ φ, ¯λ) representing
the center’s latitude and the longitude. The latitude ¯φ is simply the average latitude of
the population:
¯
If all the people in the United States were to be assembled at one place, the center
of population would be the point which they could reach with the minimum aggregate
travel, assuming that they all travelled in direct lines from their residence
to the meeting place.
After correspondence in 1926 between the Census Bureau, the American Statistical
Association, and a group of interested people, the Census Bureau fixed the problem by
taking out references to the minimum aggregate travel [4].
Although the population center of the Census Bureau is not the hub we are looking
for, it is interesting nevertheless to understand how it is calculated. This description
comes from [13] and is the method used for the censuses from 1950 to the most recent
one in 2000. The center of population is given as a pair of numbers ( ¯ φ, ¯λ) representing
the center’s latitude and the longitude. The latitude ¯φ is simply the average latitude of
the population:
¯
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