Transport systems, the vital arteries of modern societies and
economies, shape our world and are shaped by it. The subject of
this volume is the dynamic interactions
between transport and the physical, economic, and human geographies
it weaves through.
Transport plays a central role in economic development and
growth. It profoundly affects the socio-economic characteristics
and spatial form of urban centres and rural areas alike. A new
transport link can bring increases in population, in employment, in
industrial activity, in wealth. In turn, these changes can lead to
demands for further transport improvements. All these factors are
explored in the section on Transport and Spatial Form.
Sections on Land-use/Transportation Modelling and Data then
discuss how to obtain appropriate data and model these
transport-geographic phenomena. The past decade has seen
substantial research efforts devoted to improving transport
modelling techniques, and the state of the art is described here.
GIS and GPS are powerful technologies with a wide range of
potential applications in this field, in which great advances have
been made in recent years. Each therefore has a whole section
devoted to it, both to established applications and to those yet to
be fully exploited.
While all these and the section on Network Analysis may be
regarded as ???core??? areas, topics on the frontiers are also
covered in this comprehensive volume, with sections on Spatial
Cognition, GeoSimulation, and Time Use. Each chapter was specially
commissioned from an acknowledged world expert on its topic. Each
offers an overview and useful insights to those familiar with the
area as well as those new to it.Systematic and thorough in its
creation, current and accessible in its content, and authoritative
and international in its authorship, the Handbook of Transport
Geography and Spatial Systems will be the definitive reference work
on this important subject.
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