Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Gravity Model of Migration	Accessibility Analysis
Πεδίο	Human Geography	Human Geography
Οικογένεια	Regression model	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	1946	1959
Δημιουργός	George Kingsley Zipf (formalized); analogy to Newton's law of gravitation	Walter G. Hansen
Τύπος	Spatial-interaction regression model for migration flows	Spatial index of the ease of reaching opportunities from a location
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Zipf, G. K. (1946). The P1 P2 / D hypothesis: On the intercity movement of persons. American Sociological Review, 11(6), 677–686.	Hansen, W. G. (1959). How accessibility shapes land use. Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 25(2), 73–76.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	Migration Gravity Model, Demographic Gravity Model, Zipf P1P2/D Model, Gravity Model of Spatial Interaction (Migration)	Hansen Accessibility, Gravity Accessibility Measure, Potential Accessibility, Spatial Accessibility Index
Συναφείς	4	4
Σύνοψη	The gravity model of migration explains the volume of movement between two places as proportional to the product of their populations (masses) and inversely proportional to the distance separating them, by direct analogy to Newton's law of universal gravitation. Formalized for intercity movement by George Kingsley Zipf in 1946 and embedded in regional science by Walter Isard, it is the workhorse model of human geography for predicting migration, commuting, and other spatial-interaction flows.	Accessibility analysis measures how easily opportunities — jobs, shops, clinics, parks — can be reached from a given location, combining the attractiveness (size) of destinations with the cost of travelling to them. The gravity-based formulation introduced by Walter Hansen in 1959 sums the opportunities at all destinations, each discounted by a distance-decay function of travel cost, producing a single accessibility score per origin that has become a foundational concept in transport geography and urban planning.