Transport Geographies: Mobilities, Flows and Spaces [Paperback]

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

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