Transport Geography

The updated fourth edition of The Geography of Transport Systems provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field with a broad overview of its concepts, methods and areas of application and is essential resource for undergraduates studying transport geography. It provides an overvie..

Published in 1903, this book provides a complete account of the origin and development of the Great Northern Railway Company from its inception to the year 1802, a period of around 60 years._x005F_x000D_..

Whereas studies of mobility have largely neglected the maritime realm, The Mobilities of Ships brings together seven chapters that tack through unexplored waters, offering a rich insight into the world of shipping mobilities past and present._x005F_x005F_x000D_ This book was published as a special i..

Whereas studies of mobility have largely neglected the maritime realm, The Mobilities of Ships brings together seven chapters that tack through unexplored waters, offering a rich insight into the world of shipping mobilities past and present._x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of Mobi..

Over the last two decades, the conceptualisation and empirical analysis of mobilities of people, objects and symbols has become an important strand of social science. Focussing on mobility as an object of knowledge from a Foucauldian perspective, rather than a given entity within the historical cont..

Using Korean and UK ports as comparative case studies, this volume provides a systematic and pragmatic analytical framework to assess the process and results of privatization in the context of ports and terminals. It develops a new economic model to measure the efficiency of ports and to assess the..

These contributions discuss town planning issues, look at best practices and research findings across the broad spectrum of urban and transport planning, with particular attention to the safety of pedestrians in the city. The conference is a powerful plea for a multi-disciplinary and comprehensive a..

Mobility is one of the basic principles of modernity. This book is a foray into the exciting new field of interdisciplinary mobility research informed by theoretical reflection and empirical investigation. It presents a movement that begins with the macro-social transformations linked to mobility, c..

Mobility is one of the basic principles of modernity. This book is a foray into the exciting new field of interdisciplinary mobility research informed by theoretical reflection and empirical investigation. It presents a movement that begins with the macro-social transformations linked to mobility, c..

Transit Oriented Development: Making it Happen brings together the different stakeholders and disciplines that are involved in the conception and implementation of TOD to provide a comprehensive overview of the realization of this concept in Australia, North America, Asia and Europe...

Transit Oriented Development: Making it Happen brings together the different stakeholders and disciplines that are involved in the conception and implementation of TOD to provide a comprehensive overview of the realization of this concept in Australia, North America, Asia and Europe...

Reflecting the dynamic relationships between socio-technical behaviour and change, this book presents leading research on the transition process needed to achieve more sustainable transport systems. Focusing on making transition happen, this volume looks at various aspects and factors that are invol..