Fuzziness of travel-to-work areas

Regional Studies

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 707-720

  Feng, Zhiqiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARTOGRAPHY; COMMUTING; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; JOURNEY TO WORK;

EID: 70449464795     PISSN: 00343404     EISSN: 13600591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00343400801922806     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. ADAMS J., GREIG M. and MCQUAID R. (2000) Mismatch unemployment and local labour market efficiency: the role of employer and vacancy characteristics, Environment and Planning A 32, 1841-1856.
2. ADAMS J., GREIG M. and MCQUAID R. (2001) Are spatially focused initiatives in current economic inclusion policies well founded?, Local Economy 16, 236-248.
3. ANDERSEN A. K. (2002) Are commuting areas relevant for the delimitation of administrative regions in Denmark?, Regional Studies 36, 833-844.
4. ATKINS D., CHAMPION T., COOMBES M. G., DORLING D. and WOODWARD R. (1996) Urban Trends in England: Latest Evidence from the 1991 Census. HMSO, London.
5. BALL R. M. (1980) The use and definition of travel-to-work areas in Great Britain: some problems, Regional Studies 14, 125-139.
6. BERRY B. J. L. and GILLARD Q. (1978) The Changing Shape of Metropolitan America: Commuting Patterns, Urban Fields and Decen- tralization Processes, 1960-1970. Ballinger, Cambridge, MA.
7. CASADO-DÍAZ J. M. (2000) Local labour market areas in Spain: a case study, Regional Studies 34, 843-856.
8. CATTAN N. (2001) Functional Regions: A Summary of Definitions and Usage in OECD Countries. DT/TDPC/TI (2001-6). Organ- ization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris.
9. COLE K., FROST M. and THOMAS F. (2002) Workplace data from the census, in REES P., MARTIN D. and WILLIAMSON P. (Eds) The Census Data System, pp. 269-280. Wiley, Chichester.
10. COOMBES M. G. (2000) Defining locality boundaries with synthetic data, Environment and Planning A 32, 1499-1518.
11. COOMBES M. G. (2002) Travel-to-Work Areas and the 2001 Census. Report to the Office for National Statistics. University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne.
12. COOMBES M. G. and OPENSHAW S. (1982) The use and definition of travel-to-work areas in Great Britain: some comments, Regional Studies 16, 141-149.
13. COOMBES M. G., GREEN A. E. and OPENSHAW S. (1986) An efficient algorithm to generate official statistical reporting areas: the case of the 1984 travel-to-work areas revision in Britain, Journal of the Operational Research Society 37, 943-953.
14. COUCLELIS H. (1996) Towards an operational typology of geographic entities with ill-defined boundaries, in BURROUGH P. A. and FRANK A. U. (Eds) Geographic Objects with Indeterminate Boundaries, pp. 45-56.
15. Taylor & Francis, London. FENG Z. and FLOWERDEW R. (1998) Fuzzy geodemographics: a contribution from fuzzy clustering methods, in CARVER S. (Ed.) Innovations in GIS'5, pp. 119-127. Taylor & Francis, London.
16. FIELDHOUSE E. A. and GOULD M. I. (1998) Ethnic minority unemployment and local labour market conditions in Great Britain, Environment and Planning A 30, 833-853.
17. GALE S. (1976) A resolution of the regionalization problem and its implications for political geography and social justice, Geogra- fiska Annaler 58-B, 1-16.
18. GERARD R. (1958) Commuting and the labour market area. Journal of Regional Science 1, 124-130.
19. GREEN A. E. (1997) Alternative approaches to defining local labour markets for urban and regional policy, in TUROK I. (Ed.) Travel-to-Work Areas and the Measurement of Unemployment. Conference Proceedings, Edinburgh, UK.
20. GREEN A. E., HOGARTH T. and SHACKLETON R. (1999) Long Distance Living-Dual Location Households. Policy Press, London.
21. GRIPAIOS P. A. and WISEMAN N. (1999) Explaining differences in unemployment between British travel-to-work areas: the role of public sector employment, Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics 10, 51-58.
22. HARRIS T. R., STODDARD S. W. and BEZDEK J. C. (1993) Application of fuzzy set clustering for regional typologies, Growth and Change 24, 155-165.
23. HASLUCK C. (1983) The economic analysis of urban labour markets, Journal of Industrial Affairs 10, 25-31.
24. HATTERSLEY L. and CREESER R. (1995) Longitudinal Study 1971-1991, History, Organization and Quality of Data. OPCS Series DS 15. HMSO, London.
25. HATZICHRISTOS T. (2004) Delineation of demographic regions with GIS and computational intelligence, Environment and Plan- ning B 31, 39-49.
26. HEIKKILA E. J., SHEN T. Y. and YANG K. Z. (2003) Fuzzy urban sets: theory and application to desakota regions in China, Environ- ment and Planning B 30, 239-254.
27. LE JEANNIC T. (1997) Trente ans de periurbanisation: extension et dilution des villes, Economie et Statistiques 307, 21-41.
28. MCQUAID R. W. and GREIG M. (2001) A model of the commuting range of unemployed job seekers, in PITFIELD D. (Ed.) Trans- port Planning, Logistics and Spatial Mismatch: A Regional Science Perspective, pp. 152-168.
29. Pion, London. NEWELL J. O. and PERRY M. (2003) Functional Labour Markets Revealed by Travel to Work Data 1991 and 2001. Mimeo, Monitoring and Evaluation Research Associates, Department of Management and Enterprise Development, Massey.
30. O'DONOGHUE D. (2000) Some evidence for the convergence of employment structures in the British urban system 1978 to 1991, Regional Studies 34, 159-168.
31. OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS (ONS) and COOMBES M. G. (1998) 1991-Based Travel-to-Work Areas. ONS, London.
32. PAPPS K. L. and NEWELL J. O. (2002) Identifying Functional Labour Market Areas in New Zealand: A Reconnaissance Study Using Travel- to-Work Data. IZA Discussion Paper No. 443, Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn.
33. PLANE D. (1981) The geography of urban commuting fields: some empirical evidence from New England, Professional Geographer 33,182-188.
34. PLANE D. (1998) Fuzzy set migration regions, Geographical and Environmental Modelling 2, 141-162.
35. ROLLAND-MAY C. (1984) Notes sur les espaces geographiques flous, Bulletin de l'Association de géographes français (BAGF) 502, 159-164.
36. SFORZI F., OPENSHAW S. and WYMER C. (1997) Le procedura di identificazione dei sistemi locali del lavoro [The procedure to identify local labour market area], in SFORZI F. (Ed.) I sistemi locali del lavoro 1991, pp. 235-242.
37. ISTAT, Rome. SMART M. W. (1974) Labour market areas: uses and definitions, Progress in Planning 2, 239-353.
38. VANCE J. E. (1960) Labour shed, employment field and dynamic analysis in urban geography, Economic Geography 36, 189-220.
39. WARD C. and DALE A. (1992) Geographical variation in female labour force participation: an application of multilevel modeling, Regional Studies 26, 243-255.
40. WATTS M. (2004) Local Labour Markets in New South Wales: Fact or Fiction? Working Paper No. 04-12. Centre of Full Employment and Equity, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW.
41. WEBSTER D. (1997) Travel to work areas and local unemployment statistics: a Glasgow view, in TUROK I. (Ed.) Travel to Work Areas and the Measurement of Unemployment. Conference Proceedings, Edinburgh, UK.
42. ZADEH L. A. (1965) Fuzzy sets, Information and Control 8, 338-353.