Measuring Functional Integration by Identifying the Trip Chains and the Profiles of Cross-Border Workers: Empirical Evidences from Luxembourg

Drevon, Guillaume; Gerber, Philippe; Klein, Olivier; Enaux, Christophe

doi:10.1080/08865655.2016.1257362

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“…As mentioned in the EUROBAROMETER 422 report (European Commission, 2015a), in many cases, people who cross the border do so for multiple reasons. People take advantage of a trip abroad to make their journey profitable and to carry out various activities, notably through chain activities (Drevon et al, 2018). For instance, previous work has shown that Dutch residents tend to combine shopping and tourism in the border region (Szytniewski et al, 2017).…”

Section: How Practices and Perceptions Reveal The Heterogeneity Of Crmentioning

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Exploring cross-border integration in Europe: How do populations cross borders and perceive their neighbours?

Decoville

Durand

2018

European Urban and Regional Studies

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Since its creation, the European Union seems to be guided by the idea that an increase in cross-border flows contributes to more European unity. Thus, emphasis has been placed for instance on lowering customs tariffs and encouraging the free movement of goods and people. However, if the opening up of borders creates new opportunities for some residents of border regions, there are others who may not benefit. For this reason, and in a context characterized by the rise of Euroscepticism, it seems crucial to take a more critical look at actual cross-border integration and to unravel its concrete consequences for the people who live in border regions. This paper aims to do so by focusing on two aspects of this process: the functional dimension, through the number of cross-border activities, and the perceptions border residents have of their neighbours, through the level of mutual social trust. The EUROBAROMETER 422 survey is used in order to produce statistical analyses and maps. This enables us to offer a new image of European cross-border integration and to draw the following conclusions. Firstly, cross-border flows are not uniform and vary greatly from one cross-border area to another. Secondly, cross-border regions in which the intensity of flows between neighbouring regions is high do not necessarily show a high level of mutual social trust between borderland populations. Thirdly, there is not always reciprocity with regard to the mutual social trust that people have towards their neighbours within cross-border areas.

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Section: How Practices and Perceptions Reveal The Heterogeneity Of Crmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring cross-border integration in Europe: How do populations cross borders and perceive their neighbours?

Decoville

Durand

2018

European Urban and Regional Studies

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“…From a functional perspective (Drevon et al, 2018), the results contribute to raising the issue of the overlap between "metropolitan" and "border" effects on daily mobility behaviour and daily activity location within Greater Geneva. In our case study, both effects operate interdependently and influence everyday spatio-temporal behaviour.…”

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“…In cross-border agglomeration, few studies rely on a body of work that allows revealing the composition of daily activities in time and space -what we will call daily patterns. For example, Drevon et al (2018) distinguished five spatio-temporal integration profiles among cross-border workers in Luxembourg, depending on the location of activities and the time spent in the countries of work and residence. The activity-based approach generally attaches particular importance to the association between the programmes and the social characteristics of populations concerned (Drevon et al, 2015;Drevon and Klein, 2020;Gerber, 2012) and their residence (Decoville and Durand, 2019).…”

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“…Thirdly, to our knowledge, few studies deal simultaneously and at the individual level with multiple daily activities and with a broad range of populations residing in Greater Geneva and European cross-border regions in general. Exceptions include, for example, a study on trip chains around Luxembourg (Drevon et al, 2018) and a study on ways of life in the tri-national Basel region (Dubois, 2017a). This approach provides us with a structural perspective on the potential consequences of cross-border dynamics and how they affect everyday lives.…”

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Inequalities in access to cross-border resources? An analysis based on spatio-temporal behaviours in the cross-border area of Greater Geneva

Gumy

Drevon

Kaufmann

2021

European Urban and Regional Studies

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With an activity-based approach, this article offers a new reading of cross-border integration by exploring the social and spatial conditions that predispose specific populations of Greater Geneva to cross its borders. Five different daily cross-border patterns were identified showing that travelling to the neighbouring country is still uncommon among the least qualified populations and women, and that this trend now extends beyond the mere cross-border labour market. Logistic regressions show that Greater Geneva is witnessing a functionalisation of its cross-border integration, revealing mechanisms where the increase of particular mobility may foster segregation and inequalities. This article argues for an approach where cross-border integration is not an objective but rather is a consequence of obligations and constraints that individuals face in their daily behaviours.

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“…The scope of the survey covers 90% of the entire population of 146,600 cross-border workers (December 2009) within a commuting area allowing one round-trip journey to and from work per day (Drevon et al, 2018;Enaux & Gerber, 2014). Based on a spatially stratified random sampling process (Figure 2), 40,000 workers received the self-administered Phase 1 questionnaire.…”

Section: Surveymentioning

confidence: 99%

Changes in residential satisfaction after relocation: The effects of commuting. A case study of luxembourg cross-border workers

Carpentier-Postel

Gerber

Guyon

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Case Studies on Transport Policy

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Measuring Functional Integration by Identifying the Trip Chains and the Profiles of Cross-Border Workers: Empirical Evidences from Luxembourg

Cited by 16 publications

References 19 publications

Exploring cross-border integration in Europe: How do populations cross borders and perceive their neighbours?

Exploring cross-border integration in Europe: How do populations cross borders and perceive their neighbours?

Inequalities in access to cross-border resources? An analysis based on spatio-temporal behaviours in the cross-border area of Greater Geneva

Changes in residential satisfaction after relocation: The effects of commuting. A case study of luxembourg cross-border workers

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