PřF:Z0041 Geography of transportation - Course Information
Z0041 Geography of transportation
Faculty of Sciencespring 2018
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Daniel Seidenglanz, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Simona Surmařová (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- prof. RNDr. Rudolf Brázdil, DrSc.
Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: Mgr. Daniel Seidenglanz, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science - Timetable
- Wed 9:00–10:50 Z5,02004
- Timetable of Seminar Groups:
Z0041/02: Wed 19:00–19:50 Z3,02045, S. Surmařová - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- KREDITY_MIN(40)
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 60 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/60, only registered: 0/60 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Applied Geography and Geoinformatics (programme PřF, B-AG)
- Applied Geography and Geoinformatics (programme PřF, B-AG, specialization Geoinformatics and Regional Development)
- Applied Geography and Geoinformatics (programme PřF, B-AG, specialization Geoinformatics and Sustainable Development)
- Biology with a view to Education (programme PřF, B-EB)
- Biology with a view to Education (programme PřF, B-GK)
- Geographical Cartography and Geoinformatics (programme PřF, B-GK)
- Geographical Cartography and Geoinformatics (programme PřF, N-GK)
- Geography and Cartography with a view to Education (programme PřF, B-EB)
- Geography and Cartography with a view to Education (programme PřF, B-GK)
- Geography and Cartography with a view to Education (programme PřF, B-CH)
- Geography and Cartography with a view to Education (programme PřF, B-MA)
- Geography (programme PřF, B-GK)
- Geography (programme PřF, B-GK, specialization Physical Geography)
- Geography (programme PřF, B-GK, specialization Human Geography)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Geography and Cartography (programme PřF, N-EB)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Geography and Cartography (programme PřF, N-GK)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Geography and Cartography (programme PřF, N-CH)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Geography and Cartography (programme PřF, N-MA)
- Course objectives
- The course introduces basic topics from the field of Transport geography. Seminars focused on acquiring practical analytical methods (graph theory, measures of accessibility and transport services etc.) are an integral part of the course. Learning outcomes can be summarized as follows: competence to analyze basic geographic phenomena and processes in transportation; competence to apply basic methods of research in transport geography; competence to interpret basic results of research in transport geography.
- Syllabus
- Lectures:
- 1. Introduction (transportation and geography).
- 2. Development of transportation.
- 3. Basic concepts in transport geography.
- 4. Transportation modes.
- 5. Transportation terminals.
- 6. Transportation and economic development, transportation and spatial organization, transportation and location, transportation and environment.
- 7. Transport policy.
- Literature
- KUNC, Josef, Václav TOUŠEK, Jiří VYSTOUPIL, Petr DANĚK, Pavel KLAPKA, Ondřej MULÍČEK, Daniel SEIDENGLANZ, Zdeněk SZCZYRBA, Michal VANČURA, Antonín VĚŽNÍK, Milan VITURKA and Petr TONEV. Ekonomická a sociální geografie (Economic and social geography). 1. vydání. Plzeň: Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, s.r.o., 2008, 411 pp. učebnice vysokých škol. ISBN 978-80-7380-114-4. info
- COMTOIS, Claude and Brian SLACK. The geography of transport systems. Edited by Jean-Paul Rodrigue. London: Routledge, 2006, ix, 284. ISBN 0203001117. info
- BRINKE, Josef. Úvod do geografie dopravy. 1. vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 1999, 112 s. ISBN 8071849235. info
- Modern transport geography. Edited by B. S. Hoyle - R. D. Knowles. 2nd, rev. ed. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1998, viii, 374. ISBN 0471977772. info
- ŘEHÁK, Stanislav. Aktuální problémy České republiky 6. díl: doprava. sv. 6. Ostrava: Scholaforum, 1997, 25 pp. ISBN 80-86058-43-3. info
- MIRVALD, Stanislav. Geografie dopravy. Vyd. 1. Plzeň: Západočeská univerzita, 1993, 80 s. ISBN 80-7043-084-2. info
- Teaching methods
- Teaching methods - lectures, class discussion, homework.
- Assessment methods
- Check-up of elaborated seminars. Written exam.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (spring 2018, recent)
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