Geography of budget airlines in Europe

Characterizing cargo airlines in Europe: a cluster analysis approach

This paper aims at distinguishing between European cargo and passenger airlines. In particular, cargo only, passengers only and airlines carrying both freight and passengers are differentiated by means of a non hierarchic cluster analysis. Individual and aggregate analyses are performed and their results are compared.

Europe seeks to double research budget

'This increase is not in any way disproportionate in the context of the 3 per cent objective requested of all member states by 2010,' says research commissioner Philippe Busquin. To achieve it he stresses the necessity of increasing research investment by private companies to the equivalent of 2 per cent of GDP and national public research budget increases up to 1 per cent of GDP. 'We expect to...

The Geography of the Internet Infrastructure in Europe

This PhD research is concerned with the analysis of the Internet infrastructure supply across the European cities and the results that this allocation may have for the economic development of the cities. This research’s main assumption is that the Internet is first and foremost an infrastructure which facilitates the informational economy by transporting its informational goods and services. Th...

Population structure and cultural geography of a folktale in Europe.

Despite a burgeoning science of cultural evolution, relatively little work has focused on the population structure of human cultural variation. By contrast, studies in human population genetics use a suite of tools to quantify and analyse spatial and temporal patterns of genetic variation within and between populations. Human genetic diversity can be explained largely as a result of migration a...

Can Regional Policies Affect Growth and Geography in Europe?*