Maritime transport as a system-building element of the Baltic transnational transport region
The object of research presented in the article is maritime transport as a system building type of the Baltic transborder transport region identified within the Baltic region. The author describes maritime transport as a key element of the transnational transport region ensuring the activation and development ...
Regional railway transport system of the Transcaucasia: passenger direction of work
The aim of the article is to characterize the peculiarities of passenger transportation within the regional railway transport system of the Transaucasus. The research relies on the statistics of railway passenger transport and published schedules on the railway networks of the countries in the region. It is demonstrated ...
The transnational territorial transport system of the Baltic Region
In this paper we focus on the structure and territorial borders of the Baltic Sea region, and examine the key structural elements of the transnational territorial transport system. In this respect, we clarify some terms used in transport geography. For the first time the transport system gets territorially localized, which allows for a broad range of new studies of transnational transportation in the Baltic Sea ...
. Evolution of transport network of the Russian-Belarusian border area: on historical and geographical research
The article considers the issues of the transport system evolution in the modern territory of the Russian-Belarusian border area. Transport is noted for its special role in regional development and its contribution to the development of interregional ties, the formation of cross-border regions....
A transport cluster as a variant of transport complex development
The territory of the Kaliningrad regions offers a solid basis for the development of a strong transport cluster with a potential to integrate into the transport system o the Baltic region and ensure cargo and passenger transit between world economic centres – the Pacific Rim and the European Union. The article offers a characteristic of main ...
The relationship between transport accessibility and quality of life in rural areas of the Kaliningrad region
For Russian rural areas, the level of transport accessibility is increasingly a decisive factor in socio-economic development. Since this process has long been self-regulated and secondary among the tasks of regional development, today not all opportunities to improve transport accessibility ...
Formation of transport complex in the Kaliningrad region
Transport is one of specialization branches for the economy of the Kaliningrad region providing 1/10th of employment and Gross Regional
Product. The article presents special features of types of transport and tasks for its further development as a united ...
Assessment of transport accessibility of rural territories of the Kaliningrad region using methods of sociological research
... model entails the intensification of rural – urban interaction. First of all, the process manifested itself in the growth of population flows, daily commuting between the village and the city. As a result, the rural population expects a high-quality transport infrastructure and an efficiently functioning public transport network. Using sociological tools, the authors analyze the degree of satisfaction of the rural population from the eastern municipalities of the Kaliningrad region with a current ...
Suspended particulate matter within the Kaliningrad coastal zone: distribution, transport, composition
... heritage sites, construction sites and zones of both abrasion and accumulation. Thus, it requires monitoring and control of core environmental indicators such as suspended particulate matter concentration. The research focused on the suspended matter transport from the main source area, which included both human-made and natural suspended matter inputs. Directions of particles transport for surface and bottom layer were discovered to be different. The transformation of the suspended matter transport ...
On the concept of international transport region
The author justifies the concepts of international transport region and analyses the principles of identification of such regions and the features of their functioning.The article suggests distinguishing an international transport region in the framework of the Baltic region and defines its borders and ...
City transport in Kaliningrad during the Soviet era: family photo archives
The article attempts to analyse the socio-cultural significance of transport development in the USSR within the framework of ‘visual turn’ in social sciences and the humanities. The author uses family photo archives of the 1950s—1980s, presented in the "People's Album", a digital project of the Immanuel ...
Transformation of the settlement system in the Kaliningrad region
... population in rural settlements of the region has been determined by agglomeration and transport-geographical factors. The analysis of changes in the population of 1,068 settlements in the region (excluding cities and urban-type settlements) and their transport and geographical position resulte in conclusions on the state of the settlement system both in the region as a whole and in the context of individual municipalities. The main conclusion is that the relatively small size of the region and high ...