TRANSPORT AND INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL LOCATION

This paper concerns itself with looking at the importance of transport and related infrastructure on the occupancy of new building and premi ses. Much regional and urban policy focuses on the importance of land use and building availability as an attraction for industrial and comm ercial growth. Such facilities, however, provide only one form of infr astructure and this study looks at the influence of local transport qu ality on the exploitation of new premises. It draws upon a large surve y of new premises in the Strathclyde region of Scotland for its empiri cal content and uses multivariate analysis to link infrastructure prov ision to other spatial attributes which are important in stimulating l ocal economic development.