THE GEOGRAPHY OF TRANSPORT SYSTEMS

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Land Transportation Network Length and Density, 2002

The Great Circle Distance

Polar Shipping Routes

The Silk Road and Arab Sea Routes

Early European Maritime Expeditions (1492-1522)

Spanish and Portuguese Empires (1581-1640)

Dutch East India Company, Trade Network, 17th Century

World Trade Routes, 1912

Geographical Impacts of the Suez and Panama Canals

World’s Major Gateway Systems, 2006

World Cities, 2008

Major North American Gateways, 2007

Main North American Trade Corridors, Gateways and Inland Freight Clusters

The BostWash Corridor

The North American Intermodal Rail System
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The North American Landbridge

The Interstate Highway System

Ownership of Major North American Rail Lines, 2008

The Northern East-West Freight Corridor

Three Major Pendulum Routes Serviced by OOCL, 2006

Maritime Traffic per Continent and Ocean, 1960-1990

Selected Transcontinental DC-3 Routes, Late 1930s

Early Intercontinental Air Routes, 1930s

Shortest Air Route between London and Sydney, 1955 - 2006

Concorde Services, 1976-2003

New York / Hong Kong Air Routes: Conventional and Polar

Harbor Types of the World's Large and Medium Sized Ports

Traffic at Container Ports of More than 1 Million TEU, 2007

Container Terminals of the World's Four Major Port Holdings, 2009
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Passenger Traffic at the World’s Largest Airports, 2008

Freight Traffic at the World’s Largest Airports, 2008

Facilities of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

Port Inland Distribution Network of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

Circum-Hemispheric Rings of Circulation

Exclusive Economic Zones

Maritime Shipping Routes and Strategic Passages

The Panama Canal

Shipping Lanes and Strategic Passages in Pacific Asia

Shipping Lanes, Strategic Passages and Oil Reserves in the Middle East

Global Trade, 2003

Major Economic Blocs, 2007

OPEC Countries and Countries with Major Oil Reserves

Oil Transportation and Major Chokepoints, 2005-6

NAFTA Transborder Truck Flows and Traffic at US Ports of Entry, 2002

World's Largest Cities

World at Night

100 Most Congested Highway Intersections in the United States, 2006
 

Excel Data

GIS Datasets

The Geography of Transport Systems

SECOND EDITION
Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Claude Comtois and Brian Slack (2009), New York: Routledge, 352 pages. ISBN 978-0-415-48324-7