Indicator: All flows Weighted Intensity and Distance

Our two-dimensional weighted intesity vs average distance typology for 11 flows shows long-range, highly intensive regions in northern Norway, Helsinki, and the Balearic islands. In turn, highly intensive, short-range regions are located in Switzerland and northern Germany, with single ones in Belgium and the Netherlands. The French border is clearly marked, which proves that flows are relatively longer in France than in its northern and eastern neighbours. The overall picture shows a core-periphery system. The core is characterized by high to medium intensity, short-range flows. It includes mainly Germany, Switzerland, and some regions of Belgium, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The core is sur-rounded by an extensive zone dominated by medium-range flows. To the north (Scandinavia) and south (Italy, Slovenia, northern Spain) the flows are more intense; towards the east, rather non-intensive. There are a few islands in this zone where local links are dominant (flows become short again). This is the case in the surroundings of certain metropolises or their groups, especially in the Budapest-Vienna-Bratislava triangle but also in the neighbourhood of Warsaw, Prague, and Copenhagen. Outside the zone of medium distances on the northern and southern edges of Europe there is a relatively small number of regions with dominant long-distance flows. For natural reasons, such flows dominate also in overseas regions. In both cases the average flow intensity is low, although it is medium or high in a few (mostly tourist) regions.