GMS 803 Lecture 2: Week 2 Chapter 2 - gms 803

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 803
• Professor: Hossein Zolfagharinia

Document Summary

The spatial organization of transportation-2: transportation not only favors economic development but also has an impact on the spatial organization, space shapes transport as much as transport shapes space. There is a reciprocal relationships between transport and its geography: this reciprocity can be articulated over two points, reciprocity to locations, reciprocity to demand, throughout history, transport networks have structured space at different scales. Reciprocity to locations: this relationship concerns the transport system and the impacts it has on locations, the transport system is composed of nodes and links as well as the flows they are supporting. The spatial organization of transportation-5: the more interdependent an economy is, the more important transportation becomes as a support and a factor shaping this interdependence, the effect is being observed from three major geographical scales, global regional local. Telecommunications, maritime transport and air transport, because of their scale of service, support the majority of global flows. Air and water transportation form international trade (foundations!)