The competitiveness of a seaport depends on the extent the cargo handled in the port can reach its hinterland … destination (e.g. Acciaro & McKinnon, 2013). The importance of hinterland connections has been recognised as one of the most … turnaround times over the last decade. The smoothness of port-hinterland connections has not followed at the same pace …

social capital, territorial connectivity, territorial accessibility, hinterland, public capital stock, inter-modality, modal …

and compare several hinterland accessibility indices to explain the relative size of port regions. Besides standard … measures that combine the size of hinterland regions with a distance decay function, we check whether the incorporation of the … density of hinterland activities leads to better performing measures. As indicated in the literature, port size is strongly …

hinterland. In technical terms, the metropolitan area is a zone of direct city impact in which the relationships are strong and … permanent (functional urban area, internal hinterland zone) whereas the metropolitan region is a zone in which the relationships … are weaker, but the area is under the core city influence (macroregion, external hinterland zone). One of the main debates …