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List of photographs | |
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List of figures | |
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List of contributors | |
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Preface | |
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Transportation and geography | |
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Concepts: 1 What is transport geography? | |
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Transportation and space | |
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Transportation and commercial geography | |
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The geography of transportation networks | |
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Case Study: Strategic maritime passages | |
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Transportation and the spatial structure | |
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Concepts: 1 Historical geography of transportation: the emergence of mechanized systems | |
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Historical geography of transportation: the setting of global systems | |
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Transport and spatial organization | |
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Transport and location | |
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Future transportation | |
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Case Study: High speed rail systems | |
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Transportation modes | |
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Concepts: 1 A diversity of modes | |
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Intermodal transportation | |
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Passengers and freight: complementarity and competition | |
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Case Study: Information technologies and mobility | |
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Transportation terminals | |
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Concepts: 1 The function of transport terminals | |
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The location of terminals | |
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Transport terminal governance | |
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Case Study: Inland ports | |
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International trade and freight distribution | |
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Concepts: 1 Transportation, globalization and international trade | |
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Commodity chains and freight transportation | |
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Logistics and freight distribution | |
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Case Study: Commodity chain analysis: the cold chain | |
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Urban transportation | |
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Concepts: 1 Transportation and the urban form | |
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Urban land use and transportation | |
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Urban mobility | |
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Urban transport problems | |
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Case Study: City logistics | |
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Transportation and the economy | |
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Concepts: 1 Transportation and economic development | |
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Transport costs | |
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Transport supply and demand | |
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Case Study: The cruise industry | |
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Transport, energy and environment | |
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Concepts: 1 The environmental impacts of transportation | |
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Transportation and energy | |
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Transport and sustainability | |
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Case Study: Green logistics | |
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Transport planning and policy | |
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Concepts: 1 The nature of transport policy | |
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Transport planning | |
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Transport safety and security | |
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Transportation and disasters | |
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Case Study: Transportation and pandemics | |
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Methods in transport geography | |
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Methods: 1 Methods in transport geography | |
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Graph theory: definition and properties | |
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Graph theory: measures and indices | |
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Geographic Information Systems for Transportation (GIS-T) | |
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The notion of accessibility | |
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Network data models | |
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Transport technical and economic performance indicators | |
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Tim Gini coefficient | |
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Spatial interactions and the gravity model | |
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Market area analysis | |
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The policy process | |
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Conclusion: Issues and challenges in transport geography | |
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Glossary | |
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Index | |