Traffic geography
Abbreviation: PROMGEO Load: 30(L) + 15(E) + 0(LE) + 0(S) + 0(FLE) + 0(PEE)
Lecturers in charge: dr. sc. Grgo Luburić
dr. sc. Petar Feletar
Lecturers: dr. sc. Petar Feletar ( Exercises )
Course description: Geo-traffic definition of transportation, major geo-traffic functions of traffic and autonomy of traffic. The emergence of transport and its historical development, contemporary industrial transport in the world. Geo-traffic factors, definitions, types and effects on traffic. Geo-traffic principles of traffic distribution and development in the world. Main geo-traffic characteristics of croatian traffic. Consequences of traffic effects in space. Cartographic basics in traffic. Analysis of statistical indicators of the development of total traffic and by traffic branches in the world. Practical use of maps and other mapping and aids in the branches of traffic.
Lecture languages: - - -
Compulsory literature:
1. Malić, A.: Geoprometna obilježja svijeta, II. izdanje, Fakultet prometnih znanosti, Zagreb,1998.
2. Rodrique, J.-P.; Comtois, C. and Slack, B.: The Geography of Transport system, IV. izdanje, New York, 2017.
Recommended literature:
3. Feletar, P.: Hrvatske povijesne ceste, Zagreb, 2016.
4. Ilić, M., Orešić, D.: Pan-European Transport Corridors and Transport System of Croatia, HGG, 2004.
5. Chang, K.: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2008.
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L - Lectures
E - Exercises
LE - Laboratory exercises
S - Seminar
FLE - Practical foreign language exercises
PEE - Physical education excercises
* - Not graded