Special issue: Towards New Transatlantic Transport Research: The STELLA-STAR Project on the Move

William R Black; Peter Nijkamp; Aura Reggiani

doi:10.18757/ejtir.2006.6.1.4318

Special issue

Towards New Transatlantic Transport Research: The STELLA-STAR Project on the Move

Authors

William R Black Department of Geography, Indiana University
Peter Nijkamp Department of Spatial Economics, Faculty of Economics, Free University Amsterdam
Aura Reggiani Department of Economics, Faculty of Statistics, University of Bologna

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18757/ejtir.2006.6.1.4318

Abstract

Mobility as a key feature of a modern society takes place at all geographic scales. The past decades have witnessed an enormous and unprecedented increase in the volume of intercontinental transport (e.g., between Europe and North-America, and between Asia and North-America) (Black and Nijkamp, 2002). Interestingly enough, a similar development is also present at a local level, where not only the activity radius is increasing, but also the frequency of trips. Geographically, our world is becoming less distant (resembling a ‘small world network’; see, e.g., Barabasi, 2002 and Watts, 1999) and more local and close-by, the so-called ‘global village’ (Poot, 2004).