Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft Band 157/2015, pp. 109-128, 2016/02/16
157. Jg. (Jahresband), Wien 2015
Transport interactions perfectly reflect real spatial interactions and inter-urban relationships. They represent the mobility of passengers, information or goods, including commuter flows, commuting to services, etc. Delimitation of functional transport regions based on passenger-car traffic flows represents a traditional approach in geography, but has recently been neglected. The article explains why road-network traffic flows should be reconsidered for the purposes of delimiting functional urban areas (FUAs) and demonstrates that delimitation of functional regions based on passenger-car traffic flows is an efficient way corresponding to former approaches to the delimitation of functional urban regions in Slovakia. This study utilises periodical and well-available road-traffic survey data as of 2010, interpreted in GIS environment.
Keywords: road transport, traffic flows, functional regions, transport regions, regionalisation
