GGR370H5 Lecture 1: Thursday January 9th 2020
Document Summary
Modes: conveyances (vehicles) used to move passengers or freight, mobile elements of transportation. Infrastructures: physical support of transport modes, such as routes and terminals, fixed elements of transportation. Networks: system of linked locations (nodes, functional and spatial organization of transportation. Flows: movements of people, freight and information over their network, flows have origins, intermediary locations and destinations. Transport fulfills a demand for mobility derived from a demand for activity. Movement of one kind triggers a movement of another, perhaps in another sector entirely. A sub-discipline of geography concerned about the mobility of people, freight and information. It seeks to understand the spatial organization of mobility by considering its attributes and constraints as they relate to the origin, destination, extent, nature and purpose of movements.
