Transportation and Networks
Assignment for Today
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The importance of Transportation Infrastructure for Economic Growth

  • Public Transportation Subsidies
  • Effects of the Withdrawal of Transport Services
  • Locational Inertia of Transportation Routes

Transportation Networks

Networks as graphs

Network Shape

Location of Routes

Minimum Distance Networks

Connectivity

Accessibility

  • Binary connectivity matrix
  • Shortest Path connectivity matrix.


Assignment for Next Time

Read Coe pp. 119-136 Come to class with a basic understanding of the following concepts and ideas:  end of geography thesis, placeless production, technology as social process, time-space compression, Kondratriev waves, space-shrinking technologies, offshoring, production process technologies, Fordism, after-Fordist, flexible production, just-in-time systems, branch plants

 

 

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