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The issue of the footfall of large retail facilities in the city of Olomouc is treated in this article from the perspective of spatial interaction modelling. A production-constrained gravity model is applied to reveal spatial patterns of shopping travel intensities in the city. Three problems are addressed: the existing pattern and intensities of flows to the shopping centres; the prediction of possible future changes in these patterns and intensities; and inferences about hypothetical sizes of shopping centres according to some defined conditions.

The Footfall of Shopping Centres in Olomouc (Czech Republic): an Application of the Gravity Model

Department of Environmental Geography, Institute of Geonics AS CR, v. v. i. Drobného 28, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic

Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Palacky University Olomouc 17. listopadu 12, 771 46 Olomouc, Czech Republic

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The issue of the footfall of large retail facilities in the city of Olomouc is treated in this article from the perspective of spatial interaction modelling. A...

The Footfall of Shopping Centres in Olomouc (Czech Republic): an Application of the Gravity Model

Published Online: Nov 23, 2013

Page range: 12 - 26

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2013-0013

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