Delimitation and typology of functional urban regions in Poland based on commuting, 2006

Abstract

This study presents the delimitation of functional urban regions in Poland modified using the Nyusten-Dacey method based on the data regarding commuting in 2006. The modification involved establishing an administrative and settlement hierarchy to serve as the basis on which the order of precedence of flows to individual communes was determined, and supplementing it with the combination of inflows and outflows in a given hub region. A total of 456 individual regions were isolated, including 1 capital region, 21 regional, 54 sub-regional, 212 local (powiat), and 168 other local regions.