GMS 803 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Package Delivery, Land Bridge, Wi-Fi
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Conveyances (vehicles) used to move passengers or freight. Physical support of transport modes, such as routes and terminals. Modes o: mobile elements or transportation o o o o. Flows: movements of people, freight, and information over their network o. Transportation systems are commonly represented using networks as analogy for their structure and flows: network: refers to the framework of routes within a system of locations, identified as nodes o o. Route: single link (edge/arc) between two nodes that are part of a larger network that can refer to. Less tangible routes such as air and sea corridors. Network topology: looks at the arrangement of nodes and links, particularly their locations and the nature of their connections. Links indicate which nodes are linked and how they are linked, namely with a directional attribute. Path: sequence of links (edges/arcs) connect a sequence of nodes (which are all distinct from one another)