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LevelServices, Mobility and Transport (B-KUL-G0I75A)
Cannot be taken as part of an examination contractAims
- Gain insight in the complexity of the service sector
- Gain insight in the role of the transport network concerning mobility of persons and firms
- Gain insight how flexibility of transportation modes is a condition for efficiency and sustainability
Previous knowledge
Basic knowledge in social and economical geography
Content
Topics:
1. Trade of services
2. Types of services: consumers' services & producers services
3. Location environments for services
3. Mobility/transportation of persons
4. Mobility/transportation of goods
5. Mobility/transportation of different spatial scales
Course material
Articles and literature
Slides, transparencies, courseware
Text book
Is also included in other courses
- Master in de geografie (Research Option) 120 ects.
- Master in de geografie (Urban Geography) 120 ects.
- Master of Geography (SPACE AND SOCIETY) 120 ects.
Activities
4.0 ects. Services, Mobility and Transport: Lectures (B-KUL-G0I75a)
Content
Services:
- Changing perspectives on the service economy
- Service knowledge and the production process of services
- Concentration and dispersion of services location and the advantage of cities
- Service spaces: the importance of symbolic capital and branding
- Cases: some particular sub-sectors
Transport and mobility
- Fundamentals of transport geographies
- Global air transport & International maritime freight movements
- Transport, tourism & leisure
- Urban transports
- Rural Transports
- Inter-urban and regional transports
- Actual problems about mobility and transport in Flanders
Aims
see general objectives
Description of learning activities
each student presents a chapter or topic of the content while the lecturor corrects and completes
each student reads an article about a topic and intervenes as a discussant
Course material
Services:
Bryson, J.R, Daniels, P.W, Warf, B. (2004), Service Worlds, Routledge, London- New York (several chapters)
+ articles
Transport:
Knowles, R., Shaw, J., Docherty, I. (2008), Transport Geographies, Blackwell Publishing, Malden USA - Oxford UK
+ articles
+ slides
1.4 ects. Services, Mobility and Transport: Exercises (B-KUL-G0I76a)
Content
Development of a case:
- comparative analysis of the service profile in a particular (choosen) Flemish city
- locational analysis of the service sector in that town with respect to location factors in general and accessibility in particular (from mobility profile to accessibility profile; from ABC-locations to locations milieus)
- problems and solutions for mobility/accessibility in that particular city for persons and goods
Aims
Gain insight in the complexity of contextual frameworks and tendencies of location of several service activities and links with transport of goods and persons.
Description of learning activities
The students elaborate (in a group) a case and by so doing,
- they analyse the service sector of a particular town using appropriate data and compare the service profile of the town with another town(s) or with the region
- they locate the service sector in that town via desk research and evaluate the location milieu and accessibility with public as well as private transportation
- they do field work (numbver of interviews) with i) stakeholders from the private service sector (about their location choices and the significance of accessibility and transport/mobility) and with ii) local authorities/planning about service location and accessibility policy and planning
- they report via a paper
Course material
manual
0.6 ects. Services, Mobility and Transport: Excursion (B-KUL-G0I77a)
Content
- 2008-2009: Paris
2009-2010: Brussels (including Brussels airport and Mechelen)
- Harbour of Antwerp
Aims
Students gain insight in the nature, the diversity and location logic of services within a metropolitan area (Paris or Brussels), as well as the importance of the transportation networks for persons and goods, in the optimal functioning of a large service agglomeration.
Students gets insights in the functioning and transportation links of an international center for logistics (harbour of Antwerp), as well as the importance of the transportation networks for goods and persons, in the optimal functioning of a large maritime and industrial agglomeration.
Description of learning activities
Observation, questioning of the local stakeholders and/or experts, discussion
Course material
package of documents per field trip (articles, maps, prss extracts, tables)
slides presented by stakeholders and experts in the field
Evaluation
Evaluation : Services, Mobility and Transport (B-KUL-G2I75a)
Explanation
The evaluation consists of
- for lectures and field trips: (closed book) accessment during the assessment periode for lectures and field trips
- for the exercises: of the quality of the a paper and the effort/contribution towards the preceding research
- active participation during the lectures (role as a discussant, questions) and during the field trips
- presentation of a particular part of the lecture content (quality of the content and of the powerpoint material, body language)
Weighting: oral assessment 75%; task/paper, 25% BUT one succeeds only for the totality of this course if one succeeds for both components of the assessment (oral exam and paper)
Papers are checked for plagiary.
