The document provides an overview of the tertiary sector, focusing on services such as transport, tourism, trade, telecommunications, banking, education, and healthcare. It discusses the characteristics, classification, and types of transport, including ground, water, and air transport, as well as its functions and the impact on economic and social connectivity. The text also highlights the varying levels of transport network development between developed and developing countries.

1. THE TERTIARY
SECTOR: SERVICES.
TRANSPORT
María Jesús Campos Fernández.
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4. Tertiary
Sector
Transport
Tourism
Trade
Telecommunications
Banking
Education and Culture
Healthcare System
Others (lower-end tertiary sector):
domestic work; street vending…

5. Tertiary Sector
 Definition: tertiary sector; services
 Diversity:
 Tertiary sector vs quaternary sector
 Upper-end tertiary sector
 Lower-end tertiary sector
 Characteristics: heterogeneous; intangible and inmaterial; imposible to store; close to the
consumer; low level of mechanisation; expanding; unequal distribution
 Classification:
 Public services
 Distribution services
 Business services
 Consumer services
 Transport
 Tourism
 Trade
 Telecommunications
 Banking
 Education and culture
 Healthcare System

6. Transport

7. Transport
 Definition: means of transport and infrastructures
 Types: ground transport, water transport and air transport
 Functions of transport
 Transport networks
 Importance and impact of transport
 Spain

8.  Means of transport:
the vehicles used for
travel
 Infrastructures:
elements necessary for
transport and to allow
the functioning of
means of transport
(roads, railways,
airports, ports…)

9. Types of Transport: Ground
transport

10. Types of Transport: Water
Transport

11. Types of Transport: Air
Transport

12. Functions of Transport
• Exchange of goods and the everyday
travel of the population.Economic
• Integrates the differente regions and
areas of the territory allowing economic
access and acces to public services
Political
• Facilitates human relations, leisure and
connects culturesSocial

13. Transport Networks
 The infrastructure which is
necessary for vehicles to
circulate.
 Nodes: cities, stations
 Axes or lines: connect the
nodes.
 Connectivity between the
nodes is connected to the
level of development:
 Developed countries have a
dense, structured and
hierarchical network
 Developing or
underdeveloped countries:
less dense and less
structured network.

21. Developed by María Jesús Campos
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