SOCIAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL ESSENCE OF TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE
Journal Title: Вісник Львівського університету. Серія географічна - Year 2018, Vol 52, Issue
Abstract
The new branches formation of material production and non-production sphere leads to the need of their geographic study. Therefore, this leads also to formation of new research directions that, with development of theoretical and methodological framework, gains new features of scientific disciplines. Interest in studying of geospatial features of transport infrastructure continuously grows. Formation of geography of transport infrastructure as separate scientific direction is connected, first, with development of market economy. One of key factors is a territorial division of labour, which has caused an intensification of exchange processes. There are principles of social production considered in research on geography of transport infrastructure. Continuous functioning of transport system is a material basis without which achievement of sustained economic growth is impossible. The economy of country cannot function efficiently without transport, as it represents a connecting link from production to consumption of various sectors of the economy. Allocation of geography of transport infrastructure in separate branch is substantially caused also by its communications with others, in particular geographical disciplines: physical geography, social and political geography, transport economics etc. The economic and geographical features of countries and regions directly affect transport systems – the general configuration of the transport network, volumes of transportation, the structure of cargo turnover, and the direction of the main freight flows. There is the place of geography of transport infrastructure in general system of geographical sciences covered in article. In addition, it is considered the main approaches to determination of major categories of this scientific direction and is disclosed specific of transport infrastructure as the integral component of functioning of the national economy and influence of transport on country economic and social situation.
Authors and Affiliations
Ivan Rovenchak, Maryana Yaroshevych
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- DOI 10.30970/vgg.2018.52.10193
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