Accessibility of cities in the digital economy

Cities

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 59-67

  Tranos, Emmanouil ^a   Reggiani, Aura ^b   Nijkamp, Peter ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Digital accessibility; Impedance functions; Internet geography; Potential accessibility

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEITY; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; NETWORK ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN ECONOMY;

EUROPE;

EID: 84871938496     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2012.03.001     Document Type: Article

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