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Portugal - Atlas do Ambiente IV.11 - Transportes Colectivos de Passageiros, Acessibilidades e Fluxos

By Maria Dolores Freitas Ferreira

Summary

Improved accessibility helps to explain the spatial behaviour of Man as well as to understand spatial organisation and the chosen location of the various economic activities. The results of the present study demonstrate that the link established among population settlements and transport infrastructure is considered as accessible whenever it can be directly used by the population and when it is susceptible of generating flows. This Notice refers to Chart IV.11.1 — Accessibility and Chart IV.11.2 — Flows, of the Environment Atlas, and is based on the study of Public Passenger Transport (Road and Rail), published in 1995 and 1996 respectively. 3. RÉSUMÉ Les voies de communication et les moyens de transport accomplient un rôle três important, non seulement, à la mobilité des gents et biens, mais en plus, au développment et à la croissance économique locale, régionale et nationale. Les réseaux de transports sont structures qui font une liaison entre lieux, qui se localisent dans un espace précis. Ces réseaux produisent des systêmes régionaux qui dirigent les flux de gents, biens, services et dinformations. Laccessibilité est un concept moderne, chez la science géographique, et on peut

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