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THE REGIONALIZATION OF A WATERWAY: A STUDY OF RECREATIONAL BOAT TRAFFIC
Author(s) -
HELLEINER P.M.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
canadian geographer / le géographe canadien
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.35
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1541-0064
pISSN - 0008-3658
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-0064.1981.tb01249.x
Subject(s) - recreation , geography , trips architecture , cartography , transport engineering , forestry , ecology , engineering , biology
The Trent‐Severn Waterway is an artificially connected series of lakes and rivers used primarily for recreational boating. A graph theoretic analysis of 56,675 boat trips was conducted to establish the predominant boating patterns on the waterway. Short trips, with a high degree of directional balance, are characteristic. Seven distinct nodal regions with high isolation ratios can be clearly identified as the result of the highly localized nature of most of the boat traffic. La voie navigable Trent‐Severn se compose d'un ensemble de lacs et de rivières, reliés artificiellement; la voie est utilisé principalement pour la navigation de plaisance. Afin d'établir les modèles prédominants d'usage de la voie navigable, l'auteur a entrepris une analyse ← graph théorique → de 56,675 voyages en bateau. Les trajets les plus caractéristiques sont assez courts et présentent un équilibre d'orientation élevé. étant donné le caractère très localisé de la navigation, on peut identifier clairement sept régions nodales distinctes qui ont toutes des raisons d'isolement élevées. The geographic study of outdoor recreation, in those cases which have focused on recreational areas, has been largely static; recreational areas have been treated as formal (i.e. uniform) rather than functional regions. In this paper, by contrast, graph theory is used to develop a model of the internal spatial structure of a waterway, disaggregating what is conventionally thought of as a single recreational unit into its component regions in a way that reflects the trip patterns of recreational boaters.