What will we learn?
By the end of Lesson 1, you should be able to:
- characterize the relationship between GIS and transportation and explain why GIS-T is such an active field;
- discuss some of the challenges and opportunities for GIS-T in the 21st century;
- list some modes of transportation and discuss the meaning and significance of modal competition, modal shift, and containerization;
- state the mission and describe some of the current initiatives of the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT);
- describe some of the geographic areas the Census Bureau uses to aggregate and disseminate data.