The influence of the transportation system on land use : a disaggregated analysis of the migration patterns of firms on the office market and the accessibility of locations.

The influence of the transportation system on land use : a disaggregated analysis of the migration patterns of firms on the office market and the accessibility of locations. The research presented in this paper describes an analysis of a detailed dataset on firm migration, the supply of business real estate and several GIS data sources. The primary objective of the paper is test a number of hypotheses on the influence of accessibility on the migration pattern of firms. The chosen locations by moving firms have firstly been compared to the firm’s location before the move and secondly to the available real estate. Firms that relocated from one location to another appear to change their accessibility significantly. This change in accessibility is apparent in different ways and showing a variety between business sectors. Firms in the business services and financial sector display concentration patterns and tend to move to more peripheral locations, good accessible by car and closer to onramps. Firms in the government sector however show a pattern which is much more oriented on the city centre. When the migration pattern is analysed in terms of ??? location types (a derivate ABC location typology) firms in the government sector appear to follow the ABC location policy and move to ? locations. Other labour intensive sectors as the business services that are regarded as suitable for ? and ? locations appear to trade these locations for ? locations. Finally a derivate of the ABC location profiles appear to have an explaining value as a higher order construct to evaluate an accessibility profile in the location decision of firms. (Author/publisher)