Geography of transport systems / Transporta sistēmu ģeogrāfija

The mobility of passengers and freight is fundamental to economic and social activities such as commuting, manufacturing, distributing goods, or supplying energy. Each movement has a purpose, an origin, a potential set of intermediate locations, and a destination. Mobility is supported and driven by transport systems composed of infrastructures, modes, and terminals. Transport geography, a section of socio-economic geography, studies the spatial structure of transport, regularities and specific features of its location in different parts of the world, countries and regions. The subject of study of transport geography is the spatial interaction of various elements of the territorial transport system, which manifests itself in the form of transport-geographical relations (transport gravitation, spatial remoteness, transport-geographical position, transport accessibility, connectivity and permeability of the territory). The course gave skills and knowledge in the following chapters of the Transport geography field:
- Fundamental aspects of transportation geography
- The evolution of transportation systems
- Methods for topological analysis of the configuration of transportation networks
- World transportation systems, transportation hubs and corridors
- Geography of economic relations and international trade
- Geography of worldwide transportation
- Distribution of the shipments among the different transportation modes
- Geographical issues of inter-modal transport and logistics
- Trends and prospects for the development of transportation systems
- Sustainable transport development.