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RePUS (2007)

Strategy for Regional Polycentric Urban System in Central-Eastern Europe Economic Integrating Zone

Client:  VATI Hungarian Public Non-profit Company for Regional Development and Town Planning (Budapest)
Partners:  Austrian Institute for Regional Studies and Spatial Planning, CTU - Czech Technical University (Prague), Institute of Urban Development (Krakow), Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning (Ljubljana), Regione Emilia-Romagna, Italy (Bologna)

RePUS is a project running under the framework of the European Union Community Initiative INTERREG III B of the Central Adriatic Danubian South Eastern European Space (CADSES). The project addresses the problem of a more balanced and sustainable urban development, with the wide objective of building a Regional Polycentric Urban System (RePUS) that could contribute to strengthening an emerging Potential Economic Integrating Zone (PEIZ) in Central and Eastern Europe. Focus is given to the role of medium and small cities, and how to create a critical mass to sustain their regional development and competitiveness. The project covers the following objectives:


  1. Identifying the potentials of the regional urban systems including the functional roles and the urban hierarchy in the European spatial context.

  2. Identifying the dynamic medium-small Cities that could play as potential regional capitals for developing new functional integrating areas.

  3. Promoting the linkages between urban centres and rural areas, focusing on the role of the small towns.

  4. Promoting urban policy effectiveness and improving the institutional policy capacity within the ongoing decentralisation process.



RRG contributes to RePUS by identifying and analyzing the service areas of Functional Urban Areas (FUAs) based on the calculation of 45-minutes car travel time isochrones. In this, the analytical approach developed in ESPON project 1.1.1 was adapted to the RePUS countries. Particular attention was paid on overlapping and cross-border service areas, which offer specific potentials for regional development, but which also deserves particular attention due to specific challenges. Municipalities located in such areas were identified, and their population masses estimated. Based on overlapping service areas, Potential Integration Areas (PIAs) were identified which offer specific advantages for regional cooperations. The results of this analysis then represent one building block of an overall spatial vision for the RePUS countries – forming broader development axes, cooperation and development areas.

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Futher Information:  Scientific coordinator Roberta Benini (Nomisma) or Carsten Schürmann for RRG.

Links on the web:  RePUS web page



Other projects in this field of competence:

Development of a system of indicators for monitoring the development of Sorbian/Wendish culture and language and their valorisation in Brandenburg (2022 - 2023)
Atlas of Industrialisation in the New Federal States (2nd edition) (2020 - 2021)
Development indicator system for "good life" for the Lusatia (2020)
INTERCONNECT Planning Tools for Public Transport (2019 - 2020)
Concept for a German-Danish spatial monitoring system (2017)
TeMoRi - Territorial Monitoring update and Regional Potential Index for the Baltic Sea Region (2016)
eMISK II - Improvements to Beatona portal (2015)
POIs for the Greater Bremen Region (2015)
Value-added in renewable energy sector (2014 - 2015)
ESPON UpTeMo (2014)
Serengeti Nationalpark (2014)
ESPON Matrices (2014)
Purchasing Power Analysis for a Shopping Centre Location in the City of Duisburg, Northrhine-Westfalia (2013)
Service Area Analysis for City Location in Langenfeld, Northrhine-Westfalia (2013)
SWOT Analysis of the South Baltic Cooperation Programme 2014-2020 (2013 - 2014)
Rail speeds: Update of Datasets for DG Regio (2013)
HTTransPlan - Impact Assessment of Railway Tunnel between Helsinki and Tallinn (2012 - 2013)
Atlas of Industrialisation in the New German Länder (2012 - 2013)
Accessibility Potential of German Regions (2012)
Cost matrices 1970-2010 for Europe (2012 - 2013)
SUTMP Windhoek (2012 - 2013)
Service area analaysis for the City of Münster (Northrhine-Westfalia) (2012)
ESPON BSR TeMo - Territorial Monitoring for the Baltic Sea Region (2012 - 2014)
Service area analaysis for shopping centre in Düren (Northrhine-Westfalia) (2011)
GeoCensus Kuwait (2011 - 2013)
LogMos II (2011 - 2014)
ITS Deployment Plan & HTMS Riyadh (2010 - 2011)
Speeds on railway sections according to actual timetablees (2010 - 2011)
Assessment of Central Places in Bavaria (2010)
Study on Mountain Areas in Southern Norway (2010)
ESPON INTERCO - Indicators of territorial cohesion (2010 - 2012)
ESPON TRACC: Transport Accessibility at Regional/Local Scale and Patterns in Europe (2010 - 2012)
Regional Challenges in the Perspective of 2020 (2010 - 2011)
Environmental Monitoring Information System Kuwait (eMISK) (2009 - 2012)
Status Report on the Establishment of the National Environmental Information Network Kuwait (NEIN) (2009)
TRACECA IDEA (2009 - 2012)
Western NIS (2009 - 2010)
AccBavaria (2008 - 2009)
Accessibility of Zillertal (2008)
East West Window Maps (2008)
Analysis of Nordic Labour Market Areas (2007)
Central Baltic Sea Region Maps (2007)
Regional Disparities and Cohesion (2007)
ESPON Accessibility (2006 - 2007)
ESPON 4.1.3 (2006)
Volkswagen AutoMuseum: Isochrones Maps for the Cities of Wolfsburg and Leipzig (2006 - 2007)
Accessibility Analysis of the Baltic Sea Region (2006)
FUNDING Infrastructure: Guidelines for Europe (2005 - 2007)
TRACECA: Transport Corridor Europe Caucasus Asia (2005 - 2006)
INTERREG III B (BSR) South Baltic Arc: Geodata Baltic Sea Region (2005)
Northern Peripheral, Sparsely Populated regions in the European Union (2005)
SETI (2005 - 2006)
AlpenCors (2004 - 2005)
FOPS 73.319: Regional Impacts of Transport Infrastructures (2004 - 2006)
Interaction data and regional data (2003)
RRG GIS Database (2003)
VietTrain: Toolbox for Railway Planning and Railway Management in Vietnam (2003 - 2004)
ESPON 1.1.1: The Role, Specific Situation and Potentials of Urban Areas as Nodes in a Polycentric Development (2002 - 2004)
ESPON 2.1.1: Territorial Impacts of EU Transport and TEN Policies (2002 - 2004)
Mountain Study - Analysis of mountain areas in Europe (2002 - 2004)
Via Egnatia: Motorway Case Study in Northern Greece (2002)
IASON: Spatial Impacts of European Transport Policies (2001 - 2004)
ILUMASS: Land Use and Transport (2001 - 2004)
National Atlas Germany (2000 - 2004)
Peripherality (2000)
Railway and road isochrones for Berlin and Hannover (1999 - 2000)
Supply Quality of the Retail Sector – A Modelling Approach (1999 - 2000)
Ufo Working Group: The New Main Railway Station of the City of Dortmund (1999)
Interfaces between GIS, Transport Models and other Simulation Models (1997 - 2004)
Quality of Life in European Regions (1996 - 2003)
Trans-European Transport Networks (1996 - 2004)

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