Spatial frequency analysis of industrial agglomeration patterns

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K14044
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Civil engineering project/Traffic engineering
• Research Institution: Tohoku University
• Principal Investigator: Akamatsu Takashi 東北大学, 情報科学研究科, 教授 (90262964)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 土木計画 / 立地 / 産業 / 空間周期 / 集積経済

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study provides a method for extracting spatial regularities observed in a variety of industrial agglomeration patterns that emerge in system of cities with agglomeration economies. Specifically, (1) based on Fourier transformation techniques and group-theoretic bifurcation theory, we developed a method that gives the spatial period/frequency of industrial location patterns obtained as stable equilibria of spatial agglomeration models in a homogeneous space, and (2) we extended the method so as to be able to identify spatial regularities from actual observed data of industrial location patterns in a real geographical space.

Free Research Field

土木計画学