Bulletin of Geography. Socio–economic Series No. 20 (2013): 23–41 Bulletin of GeoGraphy. Socio–economic SerieS journal homepages: http://www.bulletinofgeography.umk.pl http://versita.com/bgss ISSN 1732–4254 quarterly travelling to services in the daily urban system of olomouc marián halás1, CDFMR, Veronika Zuskáčová2, CDFMR 1Palacký University Olomouc, Faculty of Science, Department of Geography, 17 listopadu 12, 771–46 Olomouc, Czech Republic; e-mail:
[email protected] (corresponding author), 2Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Department of Geography, Kotlářská 2, 611–37 Brno, Czech Republic, e-mail:
[email protected] Halás, M. and Zuskáčová, V., 2013: Travelling to services in the daily urban system of Olomouc. In: Szymańska, D. and Chod- kowska-Miszczuk, J. editors, Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, No. 20, Toruń: Nicolaus Copernicus University Press, pp. 23–41, DOI: 102478/bog-2013-0009 abstract. The service sector is quite broad: it includes basic services for the pop- article details: ulation as well as highly sophisticated services, public as well as commercial serv- Received: 08 November 2012 ices, etc. Commuting to services is one of the fundamental regional processes and Revised: 25 December 2012 together with work commuting it creates an entry basis for the construction of so- Accepted: 23 January 2013 called catchment, or nodal regions which should be crucial in the construction of an administrative division of a country. The main objective of this paper is to identify a selected group of spatial interac- tion in the daily urban system of Olomouc, i.e. in a region dominated by work commuting to the city of Olomouc.