The International Centre for Local and Regional Development (ICLRD) is delighted to announce the publication of its study, Delineating Functional Territories Across The Island of Ireland: An Initial Scoping. The report can be downloaded from here.
This report comes out of a 10-month research programme (August 2009 to June 2010) on the various options for mapping functional territories across the island of Ireland. In undertaking a preliminary analysis of Functional Urban Areas (FUAs) of the Irish / Northern Irish urban systems, this study includes maps of natural catchments, travel-to-work catchments, origin-destination data, gravity models and urban functional specialisations. The research has been carried out by a multi-disciplinary team within ICLRD and has been funded by the Higher Education Authority (HEA).