Even important connections are not always meaningful: on the use of a polarisation measure in a typology of european cities in air transport networks

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 333-348

  Van Nuffel, Nathalie ^a   Derudder, Ben ^a   Witlox, Frank ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Air transport; Association of European Airlines (AEA) data; Cluster analysis; Europe; Multiple linkage analysis; Polarisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954207412     PISSN: 0040747X     EISSN: 14679663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2009.00547.x     Document Type: Article

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