Chapter 1 – Transportation and Geography
- 1.1 – What is Transport Geography?
- 1.2 – Transportation and the Physical Environment
- 1.3 – The Emergence of Mechanized Transportation Systems
- 1.4 – The Setting of Global Transportation Systems
- 1.5 – Transportation and Commercial Geography
Chapter 2 – Transportation and the Spatial Structure
- 2.1 – The Geography of Transportation Networks
- 2.2 – Transport and Spatial Organization
- 2.3 – Transport and Location
- 2.4 – Information Technologies and Mobility
Chapter 3 – Transportation, Economy and Society
- 3.1 – Transportation and Economic Development
- 3.2 – Transportation and Society
- 3.3 – Transport Costs
- 3.4 – The Provision and Demand of Transportation Services
Chapter 4 – Transport, Energy and Environment
- 4.1 – Transportation and Energy
- 4.2 – Transportation and the Environment
- 4.3 – The Environmental Footprint of Transportation
- 4.4 – Transportation, Sustainability and Decarbonization
Chapter 5 – Transportation Modes
- 5.1 – Transportation Modes, Modal Competition and Modal Shift
- 5.2 – Road Transportation
- 5.3 – Rail Transportation
- 5.4 – Maritime Transportation
- 5.5 – Air Transport
- 5.6 – Intermodal Transportation and Containerization
Chapter 6 – Transport Terminals
- 6.1 – The Function of Transport Terminals
- 6.2 – Transport Terminals and Hinterlands
- 6.3 – Port Terminals
- 6.4 – Rail Terminals
- 6.5 – Airport Terminals
Chapter 7 – Trade, Logistics and Freight Distribution
- 7.1 – Transborder and Crossborder Transportation
- 7.2 – Globalization and International Trade
- 7.3 – Freight Transportation and Value Chains
- 7.4 – Logistics and Freight Distribution
Chapter 8 – Urban Transportation
- 8.1 – Transportation and the Urban Form
- 8.2 – Urban Land Use and Transportation
- 8.3 – Urban Mobility
- 8.4 – Urban Transport Challenges
Chapter 9 – Transport Planning and Policy
- 9.1 – The Nature of Transport Policy
- 9.2 – Transport Planning and Governance
- 9.3 – Transport Safety and Security
- 9.4 – Transportation, Disruptions and Resilience
Chapter 10 – Challenges for Transport Geography
- 10.1 – Transport Resilience
- 10.2 – Governance, Management and Digitalization
- 10.3 – Social and Environmental Responsibility
- 10.4 – Future Transportation Systems
Appendix A – Methods in Transport Geography
Overview
- A.1 – Methods in Transport Geography
- A.2 – Geographic Information Systems for Transportation (GIS-T)
- A.3 – Symbolization of Transport Features in a GIS
- A.4 – Transportation and Accessibility
Transport-Related Methods
- A.5 – Graph Theory: Definitions and Properties
- A.6 – Graph Theory: Measures and Indices
- A.7 – Network Data Models
- A.8 – The Route Selection Process
- A.9 – Linear Programming
- A.10 – Transport Technical and Economic Performance Indicators
- A.11 – Traffic Counts and Traffic Surveys
- A.12 – Transportation / Land Use Modeling
- A.13 – The Lowry Model
Multidisciplinary Methods
- A.14 – Location Analysis
- A.15 – Market Area Analysis
- A.16 – The Specialization Index and the Location Coefficient
- A.17 – The Gini Coefficient
- A.18 – Spatial Interactions and the Gravity Model
- A.19 – The Policy Process
- A.20 – Transportation Environmental Management
- A.21 – Delphi Forecasting
- A.22 – Cost-Benefits Analysis
Appendix B – Applications and Case Studies
Socioeconomic Issues
- B.1 – Teaching Transport Geography
- B.2 – Transportation and Mega Urban Regions
- B.3 – Gateways and Transport Corridors in North America
- B.4 – High-Speed Rail Systems
- B.5 – Transportation and its Bottlenecks
- B.6 – Mega Airport Projects
- B.7 – International Tourism and Transport
- B.8 – Petroleum: A Transportation Resource
- B.23 – The Digitalization of Mobility
Freight Issues
- B.9 – The Cold Chain and its Logistics
- B.10 – Transportation and Blockchains
- B.11 – Freight Distribution Clusters (Logistics Zones)
- B.12 – Third-Party Logistics Service Providers
- B.13 – The Containerization of Commodities
- B.14 – The Logistics of Global Food Systems
Planning and Environmental Issues
- B.15 – Green Logistics
- B.16 – The Financing of Transportation Infrastructure
- B.17 – Logistics Policies
- B.18 – Climate Change and the Adaptation of Transport Infrastructure
- B.19 – Transportation and Pandemics
- B.20 – The St. Lawrence Seaway and Regional Development
- B.21 – The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
- B.22 – Rail Deregulation in the United States
Appendix C – City Logistics
- C.1 – What is City Logistics?
- C.2 – The Urban Freight Landscape
- C.3 – The Diversity of Urban Freight Activities
- C.4 – Urban Logistical Challenges
- C.5 – Urban Freight Distribution Channels
- C.6 – E-commerce and Home Deliveries
- C.7 – Procurement and Fulfillment Facilities
- C.8 – Distribution Facilities
- C.9 – Last Mile Facilities
- C.10 – Autonomous Vehicles for Urban Deliveries
- C.11 – Third-Party Logistics Services Providers
- C.12 – Stakeholder Relationships in City Logistics
- C.13 – Freight Distribution Strategies for City Logistics