Geography 2144A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Steamboat, The Lunchbox, Business Travel
4 Apr 2018
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**movie from last week: the way: no infrastructure= no way of getting there or staying there when we get there, getting where we want to go, planes, trains and cars. India - mumbai: has the largest passage rail, video 1. Local travel is by bus or train: dallas, texas, majority of tourism is road based, air, buenos aires, 1141 airports, 6 highest number of airports in the world, texas. Major transportation hubs: dallas, denver, atlanta and chicago (connecting through hubs: atlanta --> (cid:373)ost people do(cid:374)"t stay there, they usually just use it as a hub. It is (cid:373)ostly for a busi(cid:374)ess travel: for both road and air. Frankfurt is the equivalent as atlanta in europe: 3 busiest airport by passenger traffic in europe, has the highest traffic volume, you can get a car, you can also take the fast train.
