Group 1 - Leisure and Commuting Mobility Patterns in the Spain-France Border Region

Team Members

  • Eva Hajčiarová - PhD student / Applying routing analysis to local context
  • Paul Bairoh - PhD student / Quarto “expert” and GIS specialist
  • Allison Fernández-Lobo - PhD student / Intermodality and cross-border mobility
  • Juliette Le Corguillé - PhD student / Accessibility and public transportation

Research interests - Cross-border trips in North-Eastern Spain to Southern France

  • Cross-border trips
    • Who travels and when?
  • How does the France-Spain border affect mobility patterns in the Basque Country?
    • What are the barriers and opportunities for cross-border mobility in this region?

Border as a potential barrier for the inhabitants of the Basque Country?

Amado, A., Paül, V., & Trillo-Santamaría, J. M. (2024).

What affects cross-border mobility?

Guereño-Omil, B., Hannam, K., & Alzua-Sorzabal, A. (2014).

Study Area: TENT Network in Spain

Research Questions

  • What are the cross-border mobility patterns in this region?
    • What are the peak commuting hours during weekdays and typical leisure travel hours on the weekend?
  • What kind of differences are there in the demographics of those doing cross-border commuting and those doing cross-border leisure trips?
    • Comparing patterns by income, gender, age (control variables)

Planned methodology (1)

  1. Dataset

Planned methodology (2)

  1. Data analysis
  • Compare socioeconomic characteristics of the people doing cross-border trips vs those doing domestic trips
  1. Routing analysis
  • Connect local data (traffic survey measurement points) from Prague Strahov area to the map layer, perform simple routing analysis on the local data and visualise the results.

Routing results

Routing results

References

  • Amado, A., Paül, V., & Trillo-Santamaría, J. M. (2024). The cross-border dimension of regional and urban planning in the greater Basque country (Spain-France). Estudios fronterizos, 25.

  • Guereño-Omil, B., Hannam, K., & Alzua-Sorzabal, A. (2014). Cross-border leisure mobility styles in the Basque Eurocity. Leisure Studies, 33(6), 547–564. https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2013.833282