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Added a page briefly resuming the set of logistical activities supporting containerization. Moving a box requires a complex organizational and physical structure.

Added a page explaining the major coordination mechanisms the favor the integration of transport systems.

Added a page discussing the main differences between intermodal and transmodal connectivity. Each take place using specific terminals and for well defined purposes aiming at ensuring the connectivity of complex transportation networks.

There are now one vehicle per seven people around the world and an annual car production of around 70 million vehicles per year.

My latest paper has been published by Geojournal: “The geography of maritime ranges: interfacing global maritime shipping networks with Hinterlands“. It tries to define bounded geographical regions serviced by maritime transportation.

Trying to articulate the four major factors that influence airport traffic; demand pattern, network connectivity, competing airports and physical capacity.

Added a new page comparing the average environmental performance of passenger and freight modes. Comparison between passenger and freight modes is difficult to achieve because of the different units of measurements.

An overview of the geography of global oil production and consumption.

The last three sections have been reordered with Challenges to Transport Geography becoming the last chapter (#10). Methods and cases studies have been reformulated as appendixes (A & B). This enables a better continuity of the text, leaving supporting material at the end.

Added a page discussing the main possible configurations of value chains and the respective challenges they are facing; massification, consolidation, deconsolidation and distribution.