Geography

Concepts to cover

1. Modes of transport and their comparative advantages
2. Trans-continental railways: Trans-Siberian, Trans-Canadian, Union and Central Pacific, Australian Trans-Continental, Orient Express
3. Highways: Pan-American, Trans-Canadian, Alaskan, Trans-Continental Stuart Highway
4. Ocean routes: North Atlantic, Mediterranean-Indian Ocean, Cape of Good Hope, North Pacific, South Atlantic; Panama and Suez
5. Inland waterways: Rhine, Danube, Volga, Great Lakes-St Lawrence, Mississippi
6. Pipelines (Big Inch, Trans-Alaskan, TAPI proposal) and air transport; communication and cyberspace