The relationship of transportation geography to economic geography

 

The relationship of transportation geography to economic geography

Transportation geography is a branch of economic geography. This branch studies transportation in detail in an area in terms of transportation of people, goods and information, and studies the geographical nature of this area. Economic geography takes the area to study at different levels; A local area such as a city, a regional area, or at the national or global level.

 Economic geography is the most important system that affects the geography of transport, where economic activities in general and logistics in particular are carried out only with the presence of infrastructure, with the availability of continuous maintenance operations for it, as well as administrative experience, where Countries with strong economic activity have advanced capabilities in the field of transport and traffic, unlike countries with weak economic activity, which have fewer transport systems and their needs. 

 Today, economic opportunities are largely related to the movement of people and freight, with the development of the world of information and communication technologies.  In short, all these systems work together to make great efforts to achieve comprehensive development and rebirth to raise the level of development at all levels.

Transportation geography and multiple transportation methods

Transportation geography has been known since ancient times, but with the development of global economic systems, economics began to affect transportation geography in terms of developing transportation routes and increasing transportation efficiency.  Multiple transportation, in which economic development played an important role in its development, and among these methods are the following:

• Air transportation by plane. 

•      Shipping by boat and ship.

•      Ground transportation, either by train (rail), or regular ground transportation by car or on foot.

Transport in the economy and economics in transport

Although transport geography grew out of economic geography, it is profoundly different from the two disciplines, in that transport geography has a strong empirical tradition and a positive approach, but suffers from a limited lack of a theoretical aspect.  the widest in other subdisciplines of geography.

There is a close relationship between transport and the economy, since economic development is greatly influenced by the transport technologies available, and from the perspective of the formation of both transport and the economy; The spatial distribution of transport has become dependent on economic activity and vice versa; Where the economic factor is active in the geographical transfer points.

Geographical transport elements and their impact on the economy

In order to clarify the understanding of the relationship between the geography of transport and economic geography, it is necessary to clarify the elements of geographical transport and its impact on the geographical distribution of the economy, and these elements are as follows:

 a necklace

 Nodes represent the start and end points of transmission lines between different geographic regions. These nodes represent the centers of economic activity in cities such as ports, airports, and train stations. They are the main areas of economic movement of the countries, in addition to providing many job opportunities, thus supporting the development plans of the regions.

transportation networks

 Transportation networks are the infrastructure structures of roads and transportation lines that connect nodes to one another, and their impact on economic geography comes in terms of their role in determining the efficiency of the movement of people and goods across the networks; The more efficient the transmission networks; It had a positive impact on economic development. 

 the demand

This issue is determined by the direct impact of use, the general demand for a certain type of transport in a certain geographical area, and requires attention and permanent development, where the geographical areas with roads and transport are adequate for the population; they are the cities with the most prosperous economic activity; This is because the economy of countries depends on transportation.