ports argue that a shift in port traffic from the north to the south would be beneficial for the environment and the economy … and compare several hinterland accessibility indices to explain the relative size of port regions. Besides standard … density of hinterland activities leads to better performing measures. As indicated in the literature, port size is strongly …

Further to being the country's most important port, Piraeus has been a traditional centre attracting organisations … related either directly or indirectly with port or shipping activities. The geographical concentration of enterprises in the … wider Piraeus area is attributed not just to port operations, but also to a wide complex of companies and institution …

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

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 …

benefits outweigh the costs by 32% for the entire European Union. We further extrapolate the returns by country under different … scenarios of implementation. In most cases the benefits are substantially well above the costs. The findings lead to policy …