MEASURING INTERMODALISM AT EUROPEAN PORT CITIES;AN EMPLOYMENT_BASED STUDY

This paper proposes acontinental approach to the combination of transport functions within european port cities . It reviews a number of concepts and theories regarding with transport chai integration and urban centrality in the case of ports while many studies on intermodalism face a lack of quantifiable data this research proposes an original methodology based on employment the data is collected for 76 port cities one milion employees in all transport modes by bringing together employment figures and basic urban and port indicatiors results of the factor analysis show the different functional and spatial trends . there is a recurrent opposition between freight and passenger-oriented specializations among port cities which are also influenced by the european core periphry spatial pattern companies and more than

کلیدواژه ها:

core-periphery ، europe ، intermodalism ، logistics integration ، port city