Transport represents one of the most important human activities worldwide. It is an indispensable component of the economy and plays a major role in spatial realations between locations. Transport creates valuable links between regions and economic activities, between people and the rest of the world. The unique purpose of transportation is to overcome space, which is shaped by a variety of human and physical constraints such as distance, time, administrative divisions and topography. Jointly, they confer a friction to any movement, commonly known as the friction of distance. However, these contraints and the friction they create can only be partially circumscibed. This book contains the fundamental and basic information of transport geography and the selection of contents makes it an appropriate book for the students.
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