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Transportation and Infrastructures’ Sustainability in Ultra-peripheral Territories: Studies Over the Azores Region

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Transportation and infrastructures’ Sustainability in insular territories is pivotal for regional success. Moreover, it is a fact these issues have clear impacts on the regional economy, including consequences on resource efficiency, population density, internal market dynamics, and the necessity to have multiple structural infrastructures, such as ports, airports, health units, among several other public services. In this regard, throughout testing tools, the present investigation used accessibility and connectivity indicators over four Azorean Islands to evaluate the impacts over the social-economic sphere that the local transportation and infrastructures may have over the regional residents. Accordingly, it was observed that the Island of São Miguel has more satisfying accessibility patterns within the four studied Islands of Azores Archipelago.

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This paper is financed by Portuguese national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., project number UIDB/ECO/00685/2020 and also by the project GREAT - Genuine Rural Experiences in the Azores Tourism with the code: ACORES-01–0145-FEDER-000089.

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  1. School of Business and Economics and CEEAplA, University of Azores, 9500-321, Ponta Delgada, Portugal

    Gualter Couto, Rui Alexandre Castanho, Pedro Pimentel & Maria da Graça Batista

  2. Faculty of Applied Sciences, WSB University, 41-300, Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland

    Rui Alexandre Castanho

  3. CITUR - Madeira - Centre for Tourism Research, Development and Innovation, 9000-082, Funchal-Madeira, Portugal

    Rui Alexandre Castanho & José Manuel Naranjo Gómez

  4. VALORIZA - Research Centre for Endogenous Resource Valorization, Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre (IPP), 7300, Portalegre, Portugal

    Rui Alexandre Castanho, Ana Vulevic & José Manuel Naranjo Gómez

  5. Faculty of Social and Human Sciences and CEEAplA, University of Azores, 9500-321, Ponta Delgada, Portugal

    Célia Carvalho

  6. Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, 3000-115, Coimbra, Portugal

    Célia Carvalho

  7. Faculty of Sciences and Technologies and CEEAplA, University of Azores, 9500-321, Ponta Delgada, Portugal

    Áurea Sousa

  8. Department of Urban Planning and Architecture, Institute of Transportation—CIP, 11000, Belgrade, Serbia

    Ana Vulevic

  9. Agricultural School, University of Extremadura, 06007, Badajoz, Spain

    José Manuel Naranjo Gómez

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  1. ISEG, University of Lisbon, LISBOA, Portugal

    Álvaro Rocha

  2. College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Hojjat Adeli

  3. Institute of Data Science and Digital Te, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

    Gintautas Dzemyda

  4. DCT, Universidade Portucalense, Porto, Portugal

    Fernando Moreira

  5. Department of Information Sciences, University of Sheffield, Lisboa, Portugal

    Ana Maria Ramalho Correia

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Couto, G. et al. (2021). Transportation and Infrastructures’ Sustainability in Ultra-peripheral Territories: Studies Over the Azores Region. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Dzemyda, G., Moreira, F., Ramalho Correia, A.M. (eds) Trends and Applications in Information Systems and Technologies . WorldCIST 2021. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1367. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72660-7_36

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