【摘要】Empirical evidence remains lacking about the territorial embedding of material ?ows.An analysis of 189 port regions in advanced economic areas (Europe, Japan, and the UnitedStates), validates a number of ideas proposed by regional science and transport geography. Coreeconomic regions such as large urban tertiary centres concentrate most valued, diversi?ed, andweighty traf?c, while more peripheral and traditional ones tend to specialize in bulky traf?c.Moreover, the level of industry relatedness of port traf?c appears as a key component of thesocio-economic wealth of port regions. The research also underlines noticeable linkages betweentypes of port regions and types of port-related policies across the three studied areas.

【关键词】Freight flows; regional development; value chain; port hinterlands; maritime transport; transport geography

【文献来源】Cesar Ducruet;Hidekazu Itoh;Olivier Joly.Papers in Regional Studies.2015（3）