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Geography, in terms of the built environment and location patterns, was traditionally, and still is, emphasized by many scholars, policymakers, and planners as greatly influencing people’s daily travel behaviour. However, taking recent decades of rapidly increasing mobility capabilities (physical as well as virtual) into account, and the related in...
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... the geography of the built environment and the population differ from those of many other countries. In 2013, 9.6 million people lived in Sweden at an average population density of 23.7 inhabitants per square kilometre. In the European Union, only Finland has a lower population density than Sweden (Eurostat, 2014). The geography of the Swedish population, however, is highly diverse and includes metropolitan cities, small towns, and very sparsely populated areas. The population is concentrated mainly in the southern and coastal areas, as shown in Figure 1. In 2010, 85.1% of Swedes lived in built-up areas 1 and 35.6% lived in the three largest urban regions of Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö (SCB, 2010). Urbanization is slowly continuing into the 21st century, but at a faster rate in Sweden's largest urban regions. Furthermore, partly due to its geographically dispersed population structure, Sweden has more transport infrastructure per capita than do many other countries; there are, for example, 1.2 kilometres of railway and 0.2 kilometres of motorway per 1000 inhabitants in Sweden versus 0.6 kilometres of railway and 0.15 kilometres of motorway in the EU (Eurostat, ...
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