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Handbook of Transport Geography and Spatial Systems, 5

Edited By 
David A Hensher , Institute of Transport Studies, The University of Sydney,
Australia
Kenneth J Button , George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
Kingsley E Haynes , George Mason University, Fairfax, VA,USA
Peter Stopher , University of Sydney, Australia
 
Description 
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.

Audience 
Librarians and researchers in the fields of transportation, geography,
regional science, planning and economics.

Contents 


Introduction to the Series. 
Chapter 1. Introduction. (K. E. Haynes et al.). 

Part 1. Transport and Geography. 
Chapter 2. Recent Developments in US Transport Geography. (W. R. Black).
Chapter 3. Institutions, Land Use and Transportation. (R. R. Stough).
Chapter 4. Transportation Location and Environmental Justice: A US
Perspective. (K. E. Haynes). 

Part 2. Transport and Spatial Form. 
Chapter 5. Transport in the Urban Core. (E. Blumenberg, R. Crane). Chapter
6. Economic Development and Transport Hubs. (K. J. Button). Chapter 7.
Transport and Spatial Clustering. (J. H. P. Paelinck). Chapter 8. Connecting
Mass Transit and Employment. (T. W. Sanchez). 

Part 3. Land Use and Transportation Modeling. 
Chapter 9. Overview of Land Use Transport Models. (M. Wegener). Chapter 10.
Integrated Land Use/Transport Model Requirements. (E. J. Miller). Chapter
11. Lowry-type Land Use Models (A. J. Horowitz). Chapter 12. Econometric
Models of Land Use and Transportation. (M. Echenique). Chapter 13.
Introduction to Urban Simulation: Design and Development of Operation
Models. (P. Waddell, G. F. Ulfarsson). Chapter 14. Evolutionary Approaches
to Transport and Spatial Systems. (A. Reggiani). Chapter 15. Transportation
and Urban Compactness. (H. W. Richardson, Chang-Hee Christine Bae). Chapter
16 Computable General Equilibrium Analysis in Transportation Economics. (J.
Brocker). 

Part 4. Data. 
Chapter 17. Spatial Data Issues: A Historical Perspective. (P. R. Stopher).
Chapter 18. Linking Spatial and Transportation Data. (B. D. Spear). 

Part 5. GIS Applications. 
Chapter 19. The Role of GIS in Land Use and Transport Planning. (H. L.
Slavin). Chapter 20. The Role of GIS in Routing and Logistics. (J. C.
Sutton, J. Visser). Chapter 21. GIS and the Collection of Travel Survey
Data. (S. Greaves). Chapter 22. GIS and Network Analysis. (M. M. Fischer). 

Part 6. GPS Applications. 
Chapter 23. Defining GPS and its Capabilities. (J. Wolf). Chapter 24. GPS,
Location, and Household Travel. (P. R. Stopher). Chapter 25. GPS and
Vehicular Travel. (G. Rose). Chapter 26. Traffic Monitoring Using GPS. (C.
Quiroga). Chapter 27. Other Transportation Applications of GPS. (S. L .
Hallmark). 

Part 7. Spatial Cognition. 
Chapter 28. Cognitive Maps and Urban Travel. (R. G. Golledge, T. Gärling).
Chapter 29. Spatial Processes. (Ryuichi Kitamura). Chapter 30. Mental Maps.
(L. Weston, S. Handy). 

Part 8. Geosimulation. 
Chapter 31. Geosimulation, Automata, and Traffic Modeling. (P. M. Torrens). 

Part 9. Networks. 
Chapter 32. Design and Analysis of Transport Networks. (Hai Yang, Xiaoning
Zhang). Chapter 33. Spatial Equilibration in Transport Networks. (A.
Nagurney). Chapter 34. Traffic Assignment Methods. (W. H. K. Lam, Hong. K.
Lo). Chapter 35. Time Use and Activity Systems. (A. S. Harvey). Chapter 36.
Activities in Space and Time. (H. J. Miller). 

Author Index. Subject Index. 


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