Changes in the Pattern of Information Exchange in the Netherlands, 1967‐1974

Identification and Assessment of Potential High-Speed Rail Routes from Megaregion Perspective

“…The mean first passage time (MFPT) matrix, showing how long it takes to go from state i to another state j, is calculated with the limiting matrix. The element of the MFPT matrix corresponds to a nonspatial measure of proximity or functional distance between regions (20). Cluster analysis, recently used by Sperry et al (21) to identify groups of Amtrak (National Rail Passenger Corporation) passengers, is used to group regions by similar patterns of functional distances, forming functional regions.…”

Containment and Connectivity in Dutch Urban Systems: A Network‐Analytical Operationalisation of the Three‐Systems Model

“…Steigenga (1972), following Lynch (1961), proposes to transform the imaginary and evolution of the Randstad from a 'ring' to a 'polycentric net' of interacting settlements. The notion of a network of interconnected action spaces visually dominates Hoekveld's (1968) interpretation of Van Paassen's (1962) relational model of society 2 , informing empirical studies of interaction in the Dutch settlement system based using network analysis of crude data from telephone switchboards (Dietvorst & Wever 1977) or diffusion of TV ownership (Van der Knaap 1980).…”

“…Export base regions form the regional mosaic of the world-economy through their mutual linkages in commodity chains (Scott, 1998). There has been a longstanding tradition in geography that uses business communication linkages as proxies to understand the intensity of interactions between export base regions (Dietvorst & Wever 1977;Pred 1977;Taylor & Derudder 2016).…”

“…Export base regions form the regional mosaic of the world‐economy through their mutual linkages in commodity chains (Scott 1998). There has been a longstanding tradition in geography that uses business communication linkages as proxies to understand the intensity of interactions between export base regions (Dietvorst & Wever 1977; Pred 1977; Taylor & Derudder 2016). Therefore, in our analysis we use the business trips within the household travel survey dataset to estimate the degree of interactions between export‐base regions in the Netherlands.…”

Containment and connectivity in Dutch urban systems: A network-analytical operationalization of the three-systems model.

“…Steigenga (1972), following Lynch (1961), proposes to transform the imaginary and evolution of the Randstad from a 'ring' to a 'polycentric net' of interacting settlements. The notion of a network of interconnected action spaces visually dominates Hoekveld's (1968) interpretation of Van Paassen's (1962) relational model of society 2 , informing empirical studies of interaction in the Dutch settlement system based using network analysis of crude data from telephone switchboards (Dietvorst & Wever 1977) or diffusion of TV ownership (Van der Knaap 1980). The term 'urban networks' is rejuvenated as the paradigmatic term in the mid 1980s to assemble an ambitious Dutch interdisciplinary research program that aims to tackle the shifting dynamics of urbanization in post-industrial society and propose solutions for the 1980s urban crisis (Jobse & Needham 1988;Van Weesep & Van der Vaart 1988).…”