 GEOGRAPHICA PANNONICA Volume 13, Issue 1, 17-21 (2009) Vesna Lukić 1 Received: July 2008 | Revised: November 2008 | Accepted: November 2008 Correlation Between Commuting and Migration in Daily Urban System of Pančevo (Vojvodina, Serbia) Introduction Individuals who take part in some form of spatial mobility can be divided into former movers and non-movers. here can be considerable diferences in mobility behavior be- tween those that migrate/commute for the irst time and those with previous mobility experience. Although it is rea- sonable to believe that workers who have recently moved will be less likely to commute then the others, some empir- ical indings, that conirm the inluence of migration histo- ry on probability of migration/commuting, are exactly the opposite. In Sweden, and in Catalonia in Spain, for exam- ple, individuals with previous experience of migration and/ or commuting are proved to be more mobility prone, espe- cially when talking about interregional labour mobility. It is assumed that ater having been mobile, person gains new information and faces relatively lower costs for additional mobility (Eliasson et al., 2003; Romani et al., 2003). Relationship between diferent forms of population mo- bility is a complex one. hat’s why some authors include rela- tion between migration and commuting in their typologies of migration (Gawryszenski, 1978; Termote, 1980, accord- ing to Roca, 1986). Reitsma and Vergossen also conect com- muting and migration pointing to causal role of commut- ing within the decision on migration (Reitsma,Vergoossen, 1987). Zax and Kain (1991) demonstrate that commuting distance, acting as an important determinant of commut- ing, can stimulate mobility of workers and that non-opti- mal home-workplace locations can be improved either by a job change or a home change. When it’s about commut- ing distance there are several opinions that commuting is a substitute to migration in intraregional mobility but is complement to migration when it is about interregional population mobility (Zax, 1994; Holmes, 1971). Relationship between commuting and migration is also the subject of researches of national authors. According to author’s knowledge, vajority of researches that are connect- ed to relationship between commuting and migration in other regions in Serbia is based on questionnaires. he rea- son in probably lack of oicial record at the level needed for the analysis like this one. Ethnographic researches in the 1960’s of 20 th century in Mladenovac and Kolubara region as the centers of industrial and mining development, has partially encompassed also commuting issues, conirm- ing that commuting has been preceded by migration of lo- cal type, inter-village or inter-municipal migration. here- fore the inhabitants have moved to certain settlement so commuting to Mladenovac and mining region of Kolubara would be easier to them (Radovanovic, 1968). Having in mind the consequences that accrue from the scope, the composition and direction of migratory lows on spatial distribution of the population as well as rural and urban development, researching and studying of the rela- Abstract Spatial mobility of population is conditioned by numerous factors that afect process of migration. Individuals’ decision about the type of spatial mobility depends on dominant inluence that results from combination of external (mainly socio-econom- ic) and internal (characteristics of migrant and his family) determinants of geographical mobility. Commuting can often be a step before or after deinite migration, pointing to existence of mutual relationship between diferent types of spatial mobili- ty of population. Starting hypothesis in this paper was that population which has already been involved in some form of mo- bility is more mobile than the so-called stationary part of population. Following this hypothesis, analysis of relationship be- tween commuting and migration is elaborated in this paper on the example of daily urban system of Pančevo. Key words: commuting, correlation, migration, Pančevo 1 Geographical institute “Jovan Cvijić” Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Djure Jakšića 9, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia, ljube@eunet.yu ISSN 1820-7138 (online)