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May 09, 2024
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GEOG 8612 - Advanced Geography of Transportation Systems
Credit Hours: (3)
Exploration of transportation systems from a geographic perspective. The course emphasizes the importance of these systems in the past, present and future. The course explores the relationships between the organization of the space economy and transportation, the flow of people, commodity and ideas at different scales of observation from the small picture (urban transportation) to the big, global picture (international transportation), mobility issues in everyday life and in the economy. The social, economic, physical, and political contexts of transportation systems are discussed. The course is also designed to develop analytical capabilities by using a few fundamental techniques of transportation planning and analysis.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 6100 /GEOG 8100 or permission of the instructor.
Cross-listed as: GEOG 6612 .
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