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Title: Accesibilidad territorial ferroviaria y distribución de población: Inglaterra y Gales, 1871-1931
Other Titles: Railway accessibility and distribution of population: England & Wales, 1871-1931
Author: Alvarez-Palau, Eduard J.  
Aguilar Hernández, Alfonso
Others: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Citation: Alvarez-Palau, E.J. & Aguilar Hernández, A. (2015). Accesibilidad territorial ferroviaria y distribución de población: Inglaterra y Gales, 1871-1931. Geofocus: Revista Internacional de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Información Geográfica, (15), 75-104.
Abstract: The introduction of the railway network as a motorized transport system encouraged the territorial development of industrialized countries. This article tries to quantify the specified changes in the territorial accessibility and the effects on the population distribution. The study is focused on the territorial area of England and Wales between 1871 and 1931. To carry out this research, we used cartographic bases of each decade in GIS including stations, railway lines and the administrative areas with information about different census. The modelling is based on network analysis tools, obtaining the Index of General and Punctual Accessibility for each decade. These results are described analytically and contrasted with the evolution of the population in each territorial area, showing the effects of the railway network on the territory studied.
Keywords: accessibility
GIS
railway
territory
population
England
Wales
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Issue Date: Feb-2015
Publication license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/  
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