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Distance is an important concept in transport geography as it is associated with a cost or effort to reach a location at the local, regional, national, and global levels, each representing an isochrone. From a given location, distance and its effects can be represented in three fundamental ways:

Source: American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries. The great circle distance between New York and Paris is about 3,600 miles. The first time the great circle distance was practically used for air travel was in 1927, when Lindbergh plotted his transatlantic flight through a series of continuous segments

Photo: Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue, 2023 The Airport of Lisbon is among Europe’s largest and most congested, with a traffic of above 28 million passengers in 2022, from a pre-pandemic level of around 30 million. It has two locational advantages. The first is being only 7 km from downtown Lisbon, making

Author: Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue The digitalization of mobility involves a modification, a substitution, or a generation of a movement. It is contingent upon the socioeconomic and geographical context in which mobility occurs. 1. Transport Substitution The rapid proliferation of ICT, such as mobile phones, intranets, and teleconferencing, promotes new forms

Source: Adapted from Montreuil, B. (2011). Toward a Physical Internet: meeting the global logistics sustainability grand challenge. Logistics Research, 3, 71-87. The Physical Internet (PI) is a metaphor that aims at improving the connectivity and efficiency of logistics. It employs an analogy with the Internet, where information is distributed as