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A barrier is a feature that can impede mobility and comes in three forms:

Transportation is not a science but a field of inquiry and application. As such, it tends to rely on specific methodologies since transportation is a performance-driven activity, and this performance can be measured and compared. Transportation planning and analysis are interdisciplinary by nature, involving civil engineers, economists, urban planners, and

Source: adapted from B. Hoyle and J. Smith (1998) “Transport and Development: Conceptual Frameworks”, in B. Hoyle and R. Knowles, Modern Transport Geography, 2nd Edition, London: Wiley, p. 17. Since transport geography is a multidisciplinary field, it can be approached from several dimensions of inquiry: Economics. This dimension is concerned

Source: Adapted from P. Haggett (2001) Geography: A Modern Synthesis, 4th Edition, New York: Prentice-Hall. Each scientific discipline offers a perspective from which the real world can be understood and interpreted. Transport geography, by seeking to understand mobility, focuses on the locations that generate and handle it, on the interactions

Spatial flow patterns can be classified as international, hinterland, and hierarchical: International (trade) patterns occur between nations and include entities such as trading blocks (European Union, NAFTA) or dependent territories (colonialism from an historical perspective). These flows mainly reflect the nature of the economic environment such as the availibility of

Transport geography seeks to understand the spatial organization of mobility. It has emerged as a full-fledged field within geography with a strong propensity to include concepts and methods from other disciplines such as economics, engineering, environmental sciences, and sociology. Because transportation systems are involved in various scales and modes, from

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Chapter 1 – Transportation and Geography Chapter 2 – Transportation and the Spatial Structure Chapter 3 – Transportation, Economy and Society Chapter 4 – Transport, Energy and Environment Chapter 5 – Transportation Modes Chapter 6 – Transport Terminals Chapter 7 – Trade, Logistics and Freight Distribution Chapter 8 – Urban

Author: Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue Transport geography is a sub-discipline of geography concerned with the mobility of people, freight, and information and its spatial organization. It includes attributes and constraints related to the origin, destination, extent, nature, and purpose of mobility. 1. The Purpose of Transportation The unique purpose of transportation