Abstract
Clifton J., Díaz-Fuentes D. and Fernández-Gutiérrez M. Public infrastructure services in the European Union: challenges for territorial cohesion, Regional Studies. Territorial cohesion has emerged as an important objective for European Union authorities, particularly since the Treaty of Lisbon. One important strand of territorial cohesion is citizen access to affordable public infrastructure services. While place of residence may influence use of services, insufficient evidence exists as to whether residence may constitute a disadvantage to citizens as regards service use. This paper assesses this by contrasting citizens' stated and revealed preferences for services in three large countries. Residence frequently conditions expenditure on public infrastructure services and satisfaction with service accessibility and affordability, disadvantaging residents in some territories, posing challenges for territorial cohesion.
Highlights
Territorial cohesion, incorporated into the Treaty of 140 Lisbon as an explicit objective of the European Union (EU) (EU, 2007a), has emerged as a policy paradigm of territorial development in the EU (SANTINHA, 2014)
Full results of the estimations, including effects associated to regional characteristics, are shown in Appendix B in the Supplementary data online
The overall findings 855 and the associated potential challenges for territorial cohesion are summarized in Appendix C in the Supplementary data online
Summary
Territorial cohesion, incorporated into the Treaty of 140 Lisbon as an explicit objective of the European Union (EU) (EU, 2007a), has emerged as a policy paradigm of territorial development in the EU (SANTINHA, 2014). It enables equal opportu- 315 (region of residence and urban–rural residence), and nities for citizens and enterprises, wherever they are on the problems of accessibility and affordability affecting service use.1 The analysis focuses on six public infrastructure services (electricity, gas, water, 265 fixed telephone, mobile telephone and internet) for three large EU countries (the UK, Spain and Italy), where comparable information both for RP and SP is located, to make the most of their territorial potentials.
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