“…The effect of access networks on urban/regional development is markedly different for road networks, and ring roads when compared to mass transit networks [5,9,10,12,13,16,18,21,24,[26][27][28][29][31][32][33]44,57,63,66,[83][84][85][86][87][88][89][90][91][92], or highway [1,3,16,24,27,32,40,44,57,66,69,[79][80][81]84,[93][94][95]. Road networks are catalysts for residential, office, and commercial development, by facilitating development opportunities through ubiquitous transport connections and accessibility, being particularly suited to Road based transpo...…”