Transportation

ISSUES

Transportation

People, merchandise, ideas, epidemics, circulate along pathways of communication. In the United States in the 19th century, the rush towards the West was associated with the development of railroads. In Amazonia, today, roads create openings in forests from which other roads can be opened for deforestation.
In Europe, each person daily travels distances that were still considerable a century ago: on average, each French person traveled 10km to go to work. (1) Products that we purchase downstairs in our homes have traveled around the world, and we only realize it when we look at the label. International tourism has become commonplace.
Intermodality.
Each mode of transportation is adapted to certain types of travelling. Largely, planes are adapted to transcontinental traveling, the train to distances on the order of thousands of kilometers, cars for several hundred kilometers, bikes for dozens of kilometers, feet for...

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FOCUS

Saving energy

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VIDEOS

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