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 …

Competition between ports depends on inland freight distribution and the spatial structure of the hinterland. With this … changed the structure of port hinterlands. In this paper we attempt to reveal the spatial structure of the hinterland of the … clusters using spatial as well as content-related constraints. We use both economic characteristics of hinterland regions and …

Europe: Antwerp (Belgium) and Gdansk-Sopot-Gdynia agglomeration (Poland). Both port centres have an important road hinterland … policy makers in charge of alleviating port hinterland problems, and also to ports in the current highly competitive …

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 …

's players and the hinterland's players in three different scenarios, the air traveler, the supply chain, and the infrastructure …