PřF:Z7041 Transport Systems - Course Information
Z7041 Transport Systems
Faculty of Sciencespring 2018
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Daniel Seidenglanz, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- 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 16:00–16:50 Z5,02004
- Timetable of Seminar Groups:
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- PROGRAM(N-GK)
- 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 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Applied Geography (programme PřF, N-GK)
- Regional Geography and Regional Planning (programme PřF, N-GK)
- Social Geography and Regional Development (programme PřF, N-GK)
- Social Geography (programme PřF, N-GK)
- Course objectives
- The course introduces more sophisticated and complex topics from the field of Transport geography. Seminars focused on acquiring practical analytic methods are an integral part of the course.
- Syllabus
- 1. Transportation and city / urban regions.
- 2. Transportation and monocentricity / polycentricity of settlement system.
- 3. Analysis of transportation potential for monocentricity / polycentricity of settlement system in the Czech Republic.
- 4. Geography of air transportation.
- Literature
- Transport : critical essays in human geography. Edited by Susan Hanson - Mei-po Kwan. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008, xxv, 525. ISBN 9780754627036. info
- Transport geographies : mobilities, flows, and spaces. Edited by R. D. Knowles - Jon Shaw - Iain Docherty. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2008, xxi, 293. ISBN 9781405153232. URL info
- The geography of urban transportation. Edited by Susan Hanson - Genevieve Giuliano. 3rd ed. New York, N.Y.: The Guilford Press, 2004, xii, 419. ISBN 1593850557. 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
- Teaching methods
- Teaching methods - lectures, class discussion, homework.
- Assessment methods
- Check-up of elaborated papers. Written exam.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught once in two years.
- Enrolment Statistics (spring 2018, recent)
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