<P> Transport geography, also transportation geography, is a branch of geography that investigates the movement and connections between people, goods and information on the Earth's surface . </P> <P> Transportation geography detects, describes, and explains the Earth's surface's transportation spaces regarding location, substance, form, function, and genesis . It also investigates the effects of transportation on land use, on the physical material patterns at the surface of the earth known as' cover patterns', and on other spatial processes such as environmental alterations . Moreover, it contributes to transport, urban, and regional planning . </P>

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