Mobility costs in the extended city of Aveiro-Ílhavo, Portugal

Abstract

This paper will present and discuss the results of one specific task by quantifying some of the costs and benefits of urban dispersion on a local scale in the Extended City of Aveiro-Ílhavo, Portugal; concretely, the task this paper is based on aims at an understanding of the mobility costs associable to dispersed and oncentrated urban settlement paterns and the behaviour underlying them.