In urban areas underground logistical systems - designed as delivery service to provide shops, industrial sites and office locations - may help to relieve the pressure of the road network in particular in the old inner cities which have to deal with increasing traffic congestion. When shops are...

In this paper, we deal with the challenges offered to international firms by combined transport. We start with an introduction to logistics and marketing channels. An attempt is made to link the current theory about marketing channels to combined transport and logistics in order to develop a...

One of the sectors that gained most of the boost in ICT developments is the call centres sector. The focus in this paper is on spatial diffusion patterns of call centres in the Netherlands. The number of call centres has increased rapidly in the last decade and it seems that impacts of call...

In the practice of spatial economic planning for the near and far future, regional planners in most cases are confronted with often conflicting interests of stakeholders in a region. In this paper we will apply the 'spider model' as an expert approach to the process of building consensus between...

Recent location patterns of modern firms appear to exhibit high mobility patterns with a tendency towards footlooseness. The spatial-economic dynamics - sometimes across the border - of firms is encapsulated in the term 'nomadic firms'. This paper adresses the issue of nomadic behaviour of firms...

In this paper the social costs of land use claims for transport infrastructure are investigated for The Netherlands. In the present study we pay attention to the acquisition costs of land for infrastructure, the indirect costs of land use caused by infrastructure and the costs of infrastructure...