PřF:Z0041 Geography of transportation - Course Information
Z0041 Geography of transportation
Faculty of ScienceSpring 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Ondřej Mulíček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jiří Malý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jiří Malý, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Ondřej Mulíček, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Ondřej Mulíček, Ph.D.
Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: Mgr. Ondřej Mulíček, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science - Timetable
- Mon 19. 2. to Sun 26. 5. Thu 9:00–10:50 Z5,02004
- Timetable of Seminar Groups:
- 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 35 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 28/35, only registered: 0/35 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Physical Geography (programme PřF, B-GEK)
- Geographical Cartography and Geoinformatics (programme PřF, B-GEK)
- Geography and Cartography with a view to Education (programme PřF, B-UCZ) (2)
- Geoinformatics and Regional Development (programme PřF, B-GEK)
- Geoinformatics and Sustainable Development (programme PřF, B-GEK)
- Social Geography (programme PřF, B-GEK)
- 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
- 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)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2024, recent)
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