CHALLENGES FOR TRANSPORT GEOGRAPHY Flashcards
The amount of travel time over the years is consistent – evolving transport technology has
allowed to travel further within the same time budget:
▸ ICT
▸ Environmental Impacts
▸ Policies and Legislations
▸ ___ as the most dominant motorized mode
▸ Freight: road haulage largest and increasing share of ton-kilometers traveled
▸ Air travel: air passenger intensity (air passengers per 1,000 people) remains low,
albeit, increasing
Car
Personal travel is a derived demand: derived from the need to access and participate in
activities at destinations
Travel, historically has been:
▸ A necessity to overcome distance
▸ Connect people to goods, services and opportunities
For the last 30 years, the average amount of time for travel per person per day is constant at around ___
one hour
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CURRENT TRANSPORT
TRENDS?
- INDIVIDUAL AND FIRMS
- THOSE WHO DEFINE LEGISLATIVE AND MOTIVATIONAL LEVERS THAT
GOVERN OR INFLUENCE THE BEHAVIOR
▸ Economic growth go with traffic growth
▸ Virtual mobility
▸ Telecommunications
▸ Internet: video conferencing
Revival of the discipline
▸ Quantitative revolution
▸ Decline
▸ Revival in North America & UK
How can this be sustained
▸ Interdisciplinary
▸ Complementary advances in methodology
▸ Globalization
▸ 1st Round Effects: ____
▸ 2nd Round Effects: ____
patterns of mobility
new forms of mobility
▸ Heightened mobility: social exclusion of the elderly , young and the poor
▸ Close interaction between mobility and accessibility
1st round effects: MOBILITY TRANSITIONS
Closely associated with the 1st round effects: functional and spatial fragmentation
▸ Globalization: MNC & TNC
▸ Global supply and commodity chains
▸ Core-periphery dynamics
2nd round effects: SPATIAL TRANSFORMATIONS
Geography can serve as a ____ across disciplines,
providing essential linkages between the physical and the human & providing emphasis on both spatial and temporal scales.
key interlocutor
relationships between transport and the environment are multidimensional, they are geographical, sociopolitical, and cyclical
transport-environment link
transportation is causing multiple and interrelated environmental problems
environmental dimensions
___ are permanent
___ usually contributary to negative externalities in the LR
environmental externalities
negative externalities
positive externalities
minimize the input of resources as well as the generation of waste
socially beneficial but economically less profitable
circular economy and supply chains
