The Geography of Transport Systems

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
1. Transportation and geography
	Concepts
		1. What is transport geography?
		2. Transportation and the physical environment
		3. The emergence of mechanized transportation systems
		4. The setting of global transportation systems
		5. Transportation and Commercial Geography
	CASE STUDY: Transportation and its bottlenecks
2. Transportation and spatial structure
	Concepts
		1. The geography of transportation networks
		2. Transportation and spatial organization
		3. Transport and location
		4. Information technologies and mobility
	CASE STUDY: The digitalization of mobility
3. Transportation, economy, and society
	Concepts
		1. Transportation and economic development
		2. Transportation and society
		3. Transport costs
		4. The provision and demand of transportation services
	CASE STUDY: Tourism and transport
4. Transport, energy, and environment
	Concepts
		1. Transportation and energy
		2. Transportation and the environment
		3. Transportation, sustainability, and decarbonization
	CASE STUDY: Climate change and transport infrastructure
5. Transportation modes
	Concepts
		1. Transportation modes, modal competition, and modal shift
		2. Road transportation
		3. Rail transportation and pipelines
		4. Maritime transportation
		5. Air transport
		6. Intermodal transportation and containerization
	CASE STUDY: High speed rail systems
6. Transportation terminals
	Concepts
		1. The function of transport terminals
		2. Transport terminals and hinterlands
		3. Port terminals
		4. Rail terminals
		5. Airport terminals
	CASE STUDY: Mega airport projects
7. Trade, logistics, and freight distribution
	Concepts
		1. Transborder and crossborder transportation
		2. Globalization and international trade
		3. Freight transportation and value chains
		4. Logistics and freight distribution
	CASE STUDY: Logistics zones
8. Urban transportation
	Concepts
		1. Transportation and the urban form
		2. Urban land use and transportation
		3. Urban mobility
		4. Urban transport challenges
	CASE STUDY: E-commerce and home deliveries
9. Transport planning and policy
	Concepts
		1. The nature of transport policy
		2. Transport planning and governance
		3. Transport safety and security
		4. Transportation, disruptions, and resilience
	CASE STUDY: The challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic on transport systems
10. Challenges for transport geography
	Concepts
		1. Transport resilience
		2. Governance, management, and digitalization
		3. Social and environmental responsibility
		4. Future transportation systems
Appendix – Methods in transport geography
	Methods
		1. Methods in transport geography
		2. Graph theory: definition and properties
		3. Graph theory: measures and indices
		4. Geographic information systems for transportation (GIS-T)
		5. Transportation and accessibility
		6. Transport technical and economic performance indicators
		7. The gini coefficient
		8. Spatial interactions and the gravity model
Glossary
Index