A measure of regional influence with the analytic network process

Reza Banai and Tina Wakolbinger

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2011, vol. 45, issue 4, 165-173

Abstract: The metropolitan region is commonly defined by a socio-spatial network of urban nodes that are linked in territory and function. Such a network is differentiated by size and dominance of the linked nodes, characterized by physical or virtual flows of a wide-ranging variety. The analytic network process (ANP) is a multi-criteria analytic method that measures the influence or dominance of the nodes in a network with feedback. We illustrate how ANP determines county rank as a measure of influence in a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) defined by its interrelated socio-economic and spatial elements qualitatively and quantitatively. We compare the ANP results to similar measures of regional influence in the literature.

Keywords: Regional; influence; Analytic; network; process; (ANP); Regional; analysis; methods; Networks; Flows; Metropolitan; statistical; area; (MSA) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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