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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 July 2016
An up-to-date account of expansion data and their interpretation is provided.- the importance of spatiokine-matical models is underlined; bipolar outflows appear to be characteristic of very young objects and prolate spheroids (including toroids and rings) seem to be a useful approximation for many PN.- High-velocity features are much more frequent than previously assumed.- Expansion velocities vs. linear radii diagrams for [OIII], HI, and [NII], based on a new catalogue show a broad, rather homogeneous distribution and thus are of limited value for studies of the dynamical evolution or formation mechanisms of PN - future investigations of these relations should be pursued separately for groups of PN with similar physical properties; a difference in the kinematical properties of B and C nebulae could, however, be confirmed.- Several recommendations for work in this area are added.