Part A. Conceptual Frameworks: New Developments. 1. Information Needs for an Effective Economic Analysis of Networks and Economic Development. Kenneth Button. 2. Future European Transport Systems and Sustainable Spatial Development. Peter Nijkamp. 3. Self-Organizing Urban Economies. David F. Batten. Part B. Theoretical Analyses of Networks. 4. Imbalances on Return Markets in Transport Networks: A Note on Price Setting. Piet Rietveld. 5. Accommodation and Preemption in Network Evolution. Roberto Roson. 6. Proximity and Circulation in Production Networks. Antje Burmeister. 7. Barriers to Communication in Developing Knowledge Capacity in Urban Systems. Maria Giaoutzi and Anastasia Stratigea. 8. Some Hypotheses about a General Networks Morphogenesis Process. Jean-Marc Offner and Pierre Zembri. Part C. Infrastructure Networks: Some Case Studies in Europe. 9. Relocation of a Railway Container Terminal in an Urban Setting Emphasizing Logistics and Transport. Bo Terje Kalsaas and Piet Rietveld. 10. The Dutch Railway System: What is Wrong with it and Why: Infrastructure Networks from the Systems Perspective. Dirk-Jan F. Kamann and Eva H. Karásek. 11. Telecommunication and Territorial Innovation: the Experience of the Metropolitan Area Network and High Technology Network in Tuscany. Cristina Capineri and Patrizia Romei. Part D. Empirical Analyses of Networks. 12. The Measurement of Inequality in the Access to Hospital Networks. Daniele Fabbri. 13. The TransEuropean Air Transport Network: an Analysis of the Quality of Services and Spatial Performances. Milan Janic. 14. Telecommunication Usage and Socioeconomic Environment: Theoretical and Empirical Issues from the Italian Case. Domenico Campisi and Carlo Tesauro. 15. Neurocomputing and Spatial Interaction Models for the Analysis of European Freight Transport Flows. Aura Reggiani, Peter Nijkamp and Lucia Nobilio.