1969/06/01 by DONALD G. JANELLE, Donald G. Janelle · 260 citations
Engineering · Social Sciences · #Aside #Computer science #Data mining #Economic geography #Geography #Key (lock) #Measure (data warehouse) #Process (computing) #Regional science #Transportation Planning and Optimization #Transportation and Mobility Innovations #Urban Transport and Accessibility
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.1969.tb00675.x
published in Annals of the Association of American Geographers 59(2), 348-364 (American Association of Geographers)
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Travel-time connectivity is a key factor in defining a process of the spatial reorganization of man's functional establishment. A case study relating highway development with the growth in wholesale activity for selected cities in the upper midwest of the United States indicates that, aside from being a good surrogate of transport efficiency, travel-time connectivity is also a good measure of the relative advantage of a given place in attracting to itself the centralization and specialization of human activity.