Institutional Geography Research Articles

Le centenaire de la société Roumaine de géographie (1875–1975)

The Geographical Society in Romania — founded 15–27 June 1875 — plays an important part in the development of modern Romanian scientific geography. It supports school geography with educational plans and programmes by various treatises and textbooks. The Society has promoted geographical research by recommending several themes relating to Romanian territory, and by publication. In its first decades of activity (1875–1920), it initiated, promoted and supported geographical explorations and expeditions to less-known areas of the world. Its publication — The Bulletin of the Romanian Geographical Society — dealt with especially the results of scientific research work, and the journals Atetura (1949–1968) and Terra (from 1969) published studies, geographical syntheses and methodological articles. The 4000 members of the Geographical Society of Romania are grouped in over 50 branches. The Society has a wide and varied collaboration with many other geographical societies and institutes. In Romania, the Society works with the Institute of Geography, the departments of geography in universities and other institutions. After the experience of the years 1890–1900 (when 32 county dictionaries and the great geographical dictionaries to Romania in 5 volumes were produced), at present the members of our Society are working on 39 geographical monographs to the counties of the S.R. of Romania and the guide to the municipality of Bucharest.

On the operation of automated ground transportation systems, part I: Urban problems and perspectives

Several approaches to the operation of automated ground transport systems for urban use are presented and evaluated. Such systems have been suggested principally in response to the problems of urban traffic congestian and are often proposed as solutions to such problems. Thus this paper, the first of a series of three, discusses the problems of urban transportation and their origins, identifying as the principal elements the institutional structure, urban geography, and design of facilities for urban automotive transport. Importantly, the origins of a significant portion of "the urban transportation problem" lie outside the transport sector. Six potential applications for automated transport systems are suggested, ranging from specialized single-link "horizontal elevators" to general-purpose wide-area networks.

CENTRIFUGAL–CENTRIPETAL FORCES IN INTERNATIONAL PETROLEUM COMPANY REGIONS1

(1961). CENTRIFUGAL–CENTRIPETAL FORCES IN INTERNATIONAL PETROLEUM COMPANY REGIONS. Annals of the Association of American Geographers: Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 124-138.

Essential Task in the Teaching of Geography in Institutions of Higher Learning

Essential Task in the Teaching of Geography in Institutions of Higher Learning

A Catalog Study of Geography in Educational Institutions Above the High School

A Catalog Study of Geography in Educational Institutions Above the High School