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Source: adapted from Rodrigue, J-P (2004) “Freight, Gateways and Mega-Urban Regions: The Logistical Integration of the BostWash Corridor”, Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geografie, Vol. 95, No. 2, pp. 147-161. Three spatial models relate urbanization, transportation, and corridors:

Source: Airlines for America. Labor is the most important operating cost of an airline (32.3%), followed by fuel (17.7%). Labor represents about 75% of all non-fixed costs of airline operations. Layoffs are consequently the first strategy used by the airline industry for rationalization during a downturn. Since about two-thirds of

Rail freight in North America has experienced remarkable growth since deregulation in the 1980s. A significant share of this transformation concerns the emergence of long-distance rail freight corridors linking the two major gateway systems of North America; Southern California and New York/New Jersey via Chicago. The North-American Landbridge represents the

Landbridges provide a level of continuity between maritime and long-distance inland transport networks. There are four main types of landbridges depending on the destination of the transoceanic cargo: Although each of these terms refers to a specific inland transport service configuration, the term landbridge has increasingly been used as a

Author: Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue Bottlenecks impose delays and restrictions in the normal flow of transportation and can be related to infrastructure, regulations or operations. 1. Transport Bottlenecks The formation of bottlenecks is the outcome of three factors that can be individual or concomitant, for complex bottlenecks: The effects of bottlenecks

Source: adapted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_credit Two important documents are commonly required for a commercial transaction involving the exchange and transport of a good between a buyer and a seller: Letter of credit. A document issued by a financial institution that provides a promise of payment for a trade transaction, implying that

Source: SRI International (2002). Mail delivery is illustrative of space / time convergence with significant improvements in the mid 19th and early 20th centuries. Delivering a parcel between New York and San Francisco in the early 1840s took about 180 days by carriage wagons. The use of a maritime road

The idea to link the Far East and Europe by rail took its origin with the construction of the Trans Siberian railway linking Moscow to Vladivostok, completed in 1916. With a length of 9,200 km, it is the longest rail segment in the world. It was initially used solely as

Data from United States Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration. The above map represents four ways to classify and symbolize transport-related information: