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UK Freight Transport System

For the graded assignment in the Introduction to Mapping, Spatial Data and GIS course I completed in June I made the following map:

UK Freight Transport System - shipping ports without rail connections
UK Freight Transport System - shipping ports without rail connections

The (naïve) idea behind my map was to mix together the vague and broad terms “supply chain analysis” and “climate change” which led me to the thought: what would be the best shipping port to connect to the rail network next?

The consideration of shipping port busyness covering the “supply chain analysis” angle, and rail freight being a greener form of transport than road haulage covering the “climate change” angle.

My objective was to make a map that demonstrates the skills I learned throughout the course – and my map did that. I can say with a large degree of certainty that this map does not point out the next best shipping ports to connect to the railway network (unless I stumbled across a reasonable conclusion by accident) due to my knowledge of the amount of uncertainty that went into its creation.

Today I’m just sharing the end result, and I will work backwards from there, sharing more about the elements of uncertainty I encountered in separate posts.