Rural Accessibility in European Regions

<p>Rural Accessibility in European Regions explores concepts methodologies and case studies dealing with accessibility in European rural areas embracing cultural socioeconomic and governance aspects that play a key role for accessibility policies in rural and peripheral areas.</p><p>In the first part the chapters introduce rural accessibility challenges present a methodology to support policymaking for enhancing accessibility in rural areas and apply it to case studies in the United Kingdom Italy Spain and Sweden. In the second part additional cases from Poland Germany Greece and France provide alternative approaches to the topic and a research agenda is proposed. Overall the book contributes to a conceptualisation of rural accessibility addressing challenges and potentials for rural accessibility and urban–rural relationships in European regions.</p><p>The book fills a gap in the existing bodies of literature on accessibility and on rural planning bridging the two spheres with an interdisciplinary approach to rural accessibility for mobility planning and regional studies.</p>