Transport costs and new economic geography

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Zoom in, zoom out: Geographic scale and multinational activity (2018, background): “These latter costs have long been modeled using the iceberg model (Samuelson, 1954; McCann, 2005) wherein they increase monotonically with distance.”
Transport Infrastructure, Spatial Clusters and Regional Economic Growth in China (2012, background): “When it comes to direct benefits of transport infrastructure, economic growth is achieved with the money and time savings induced by improved transportation, and this mechanism is experienced at the regional level by governments or enterprises in various types of markets (Ottaviano and Puga, 1997 ;”
When are Cities Engines of Growth in China? Spread and Backwash Effects across the Urban Hierarchy (2013, background): “However, the ‘Krugman’ formulation introduces measurement error into the derived market potential measures because this iceberg function is inconsistent with observations of spatial interactions between firms, individuals and agents (MCCANN, 2005; FINGLETON and MCCANN, 2007).”
Putting New Economic Geography to the Test: Free-Ness of Trade and Agglomeration in the EU Regions (2005, background): “Also, from a theoretical point of view, the second option is to be preferred ( McCann, 2005 ).”