Transport Geographies

Mobilities, Flows and Spaces
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5323-2
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 562 g

A student-friendly, issues-based text providing an introduction to the key ideas, concepts and themes of transport geographies. It offers an empirically informed and theoretically robust narrative that highlights the important role of transport in economic, environmental, and urban geographies.
- Emphasizes transport geography as a mainstream of human geography
- An innovative, qualitative approach offering a wide theoretical and empirical base
- A formidable collection of renowned experts in the field
- Superbly illustrated

Zielgruppe

Upper level undergraduate and postgraduates studying transport and human geography, transport studies, planning, public policy and administration, sociology, psychology, transport engineering and economics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knowles, Richard

Shaw, Jon

Docherty, Iain

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Verkehrsplanung, Verkehrspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures vii

Notes on contributors xi

Preface xvii

List of abbreviations xix

Part 1 Fundamentals of transport geographies 1

1 Introducing transport geographies 3
Jon Shaw, Richard Knowles and Iain Docherty

2 Transport and economic development 10
Danny MacKinnon, Gordon Pirie and Matthias Gather

3 Transport and the environment 29
Stephen Potter and Ian Bailey

4 Transport and social justice 49
Julian Hine

5 Transport governance and ownership 62
Jon Shaw, Richard Knowles and Iain Docherty

Part 2 Transport flows and spaces 81

6 Connected cities 83
Iain Docherty, Genevieve Giuliano and Donald Houston

7 Geographies of rural transport 102
David Gray, John Farrington and Andreas Kagermeier

8 Inter-urban and regional transport 120
Clive Charlton and Tim Vowles

9 Global air transport 137
Brian Graham and Andrew R. Goetz

10 International maritime freight movements 156
Jean-Paul Rodrigue and Michael Browne

11 Individual transport patterns 179
Stephen Stradling and Jillian Anable

12 Transport, tourism and leisure 196
Derek Hall

Part 3 Future transport geographies 213

13 Transport directions to the future 215
Glenn Lyons and Becky Loo

14 Revitalized transport geographies 227
John Preston and Kevin O’Connor

References 238

Index 278

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Knowles is Professor of Transport Geography at the University of Salford and a member of the Research Institute for the Built and Human Environment.

Jon Shaw is Reader in Human Geography and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Transport at the University of Plymouth.

Iain Docherty is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management at the University of Glasgow and Chair of the Transport Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers).