Market areas – a methodological reflection on their boundaries
Market areas – a methodological reflection on their boundaries
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市场领域——对其边界的方法论反思
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1998
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G. Löffler
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作者:
G. Löffler
According to a classical definition the size of a market area results from the spatial range of the demanded and/or supplied goods and services. Distance-sales-relations or price-sales-relations produce overlapping and interconnecting sales cones with fuzzy limits in space. Thus the problem consists in identifying boundaries or edges of boundaries which result from the intensity of (spatial) spending power flows or spatial consumer shopping behaviour defining a system of functional regions. They can be estimated empirically by surveys or by mathematical models. In the former case the customer flows or spending power flows themselves are empirically recorded, in the latter they are determined from structure data of the supply and demand locations taking the distance barrier into consideration. The methods and their variants are described, their strengths and weaknesses discussed and possible areas of application presented.