The goal of research is comparative assessment of the intensity of air transportation in the European region. To achieve this aim consistently solve issues on assessing the development of air ...transportation factors within it, their intensity applied to the passenger and cargo transportation in each country and their subsequent ranking on this indicator. The result was the estimation of factors that influence over the volume of air transportation in the European region, which showed their dependence on the geographical location of the countries and their population sizes and volume of the national economies. The quite dense network of airports and airlines which are varied in size, and the cost of transportation have been revealed, and almost absence of monopoly applied to the selected countries, which ensures competitive conditions in the airline industry, and creates favorable conditions for their development. The intensity of air transportation by country and carried out their ranking on this index, ref lected the degree of its dependence on the level of economic development level of the countries have been determined. The lowest degree is register mainly in the countries with economies in transition period, the highest – in the island countries (Ireland, Iceland), and in the most developed countries of continental Europe (Luxembourg, Norway). The territorial differences in the intensity of air transportation within the European region witch have been identified, allowed to divide it into 3 compact areas: East and South – mostly low, West and South-West – with moderate, Central and Northern – with its high degree.
It was only in 1984 that a public transport system was set up by the State in the two main cities of Burkina Faso. After five years in operation, this service has always been in the red, especially ...in Bobo-Dioulasso, as the trafic is insufficient. The wealthy prefer two-wheeled transport, which is more and more abundant, and for the lower income bracket of the population the fares are dissuasive.
Ce n'est qu'en 1984 qu'un service de transport en commun a été mis en place par l'Etat dans les deux principales villes du Burkina Faso. Après cinq années de fonctionnement, ce service reste déficitaire, surtout à Bobo-Dioulasso, le trafic étant insuffisant. Les citadins aisés (classe moyenne, salariés, fonctionnaires) lui préfèrent les engins à deux roues, motorisés si possible qui, eux, prolifèrent, alors que pour la majorité de la population aux revenus toujours très faibles, les tarifs apparaissent dissuasifs.
Cosaert Patrice. Le transport en commun au Burkina Faso. In: Urbanisation et développement dans les pays tropicaux. Bordeaux : Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 1991. pp. 161-169. (Espaces tropicaux, 4)
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La présente étude insiste sur les transformations récentes des fonctions géographiques (au sens large) dévolues au carrefour européen du détroit de l'Öresund, ensemble régional qui sur 1,5% de ...la superficie globale des cinq pays du Nord concentre près de 14% de la population totale avec une densité des peuplements et des activités (y compris agricoles) assez exceptionnelle en Europe septentrionale. Placée jusqu'en 1989-90 dans une situation doublement périphérique par rapport à l'ensemble de la Scandinavie et de la Finlande d'une part et à la Communauté Economique Européenne à Douze d'autre part, la région de l'Öresund, en voie de structuration «administrative» est en passe de devenir un centre européen de développement important d'abord à cause de la chute de l'«Empire» soviétique qui a ouvert sur le monde les rivages du Sud et de l'Est de la Baltique, arrière-pays naturel des Détroits danois, ensuite à cause de l'entrée probable et prochaine de la Suède et de la Finlande dans la C.E.E., enfin à cause de la réalisation d'une liaison concrète par pont et (ou) tunnel à l'entrée méridionale de l'Öresund.
ABSTRACT
This study deals particularly with the recent changes of the geographical functions (in a broad sense) associated with the European crossroads of the Strait of Öresund. Nearly 14% of the whole population is concentrated on this regional unit, 1,5% of the whole surface of the five Northern countries, with a density of people and activities (including agriculture) quite exceptional in Northern Europe. Located on the periphery of Scandinavia and Finland on the one hand, and on the periphery of the Twelve on the other hand, the Öserund area, which is in the process of receiving an «administrative» infrastructure, is on the point of becoming an important independent European development centre, first because of the fall of the Soviet Empire, which has opened on to the world the Southern and Eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, the natural hinterland of the Danish Straits, secondly because Sweden and Finland will probably soon join the EC, and thirdly because a bridge or a tunnel is going to be built at the Southern entrance of the Öresund Strait.
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