2020/01/27 by Dimitrios Tsiotas, Tsiotas, Dimitrios, Labros Sdrolias +3
Social Sciences · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Transportation Planning and Optimization #Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2001.09664
Network Science is an emerging discipline using the network paradigm to model\ncommunication systems as pair-sets of interconnected nodes and their linkages\n(edges). This paper applies this paradigm to study an interacting system in\nregional economy consisting of daily road transportation flows for labor\npurposes, the so-called commuting phenomenon. In particular, the commuting\nsystem in Greece including 39 non-insular prefectures is modeled into a complex\nnetwork and it is studied using measures and methods of complex network\nanalysis and empirical techniques. The study aims to detect the structural\ncharacteristics of the Greek interregional commuting network (GCN) and to\ninterpret how this network is related to the regional development. The analysis\nhighlights the effect of the spatial constraints in the structure of the GCN,\nit provides insights about the major road transport projects constructed the\nlast decade, and it outlines a populationcontrolled (gravity) pattern of\ncommuting, illustrating that high-populated regions attract larger volumes of\nthe commuting activity, which consequently affects their productivity. Overall,\nthis paper highlights the effectiveness of complex network analysis in the\nmodeling of systems of regional economy, such as the systems of spatial\ninteraction and the transportation networks, and it promotes the use of the\nnetwork paradigm to the regional research.\n