Accessibility and territorial cohesion in a case of transport infrastructure improvements with changing population distributions

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Table 5 Inequality indicators of observed population distributions in 1971 and 2011, and in 2006 and 2030 according to the LUISA’s Compact and BAU scenarios

Population distribution	Population 1971 (r)	Population 2011		Population 2006	Compact scenario (III)		BAU scenario (IV)
			% dif	(I and II)		% dif		% dif
Variation coeff.	6.695	6.482	−3.17	6.355	8.334	31.13	9.462	48.89
Gini index	0.778	0.783	0.54	0.782	0.858	9.72	0.883	12.83
Atkinson (0.5)	0.536	0.541	0.89	0.541	0.668	23.51	0.711	31.59
Theil (0)	1.775	1.743	−1.81	1.733	2.354	35.83	2.658	53.35

Note: case numbers (I to IV) are given between parentheses. Case r serves as a reference for the relative differences in the historical trends; case I serves as a reference for the relative differences in the modelling results