Defination of transferability in spatial geography?

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Answer 1

The capacity of a good to be transported. High transferability is linked with high value/low bulk, easily transported goods, such as Rolex watches; low transferability to low value/high bulk goods, like hay, or to low value yet fragile goods, like plate glass. E. L. Ullman (1954) believed transferability to be one of the three fundamental principles underlying spatial interaction. The other two are complementarity and intervening opportunity.

Transferability is largely determined by transport costs and movement will only take place if either the cost or economic distance is not too great. As economic distance increases, so transferability decreases and any intervening source of goods will be used. Since economic distance and intervening opportunities vary, so transferability may change over time.

Spatial Interaction:

Movement between locationally separate places.

Transferability:

The extent to which a good or service can be moved from one location to another; the relative capacity for spatial interaction.