THE GEOGRAPHY OF TRANSPORT SYSTEMSPDF电子书下载

Chapter 1 Transportation and geography 1

CONCEPTS：1 What is transport geography？ 1

2 Transportation and space 9

3 Transportation and commercial geography 17

4 The geography of transportation networks 22

CASE STUDY：Strategic maritime passages 30

Chapter 2 Transportation and the spatial structure 42

CONCEPTS：1 Historical geography of transportation：the emergence of mechanized systems 42

2 Historical geography of transportation：the setting of global systems 58

3 Transport and spatial organization 65

4 Transport and location 72

5 Future transportation 77

CASE STUDY：High speed rail systems 83

Chapter 3 Transportation modes 89

CONCEPTS：1 A diversity of modes 89

2 Intermodal transportation 110

3 Passengers and freight：complementarity and competition 120

CASE STUDY：Information technologies and mobility 122

Chapter 4 Transportation terminals 127

CONCEPTS：1 The function of transport terminals 127

2 The location of terminals 134

3 Transport terminal governance 149

CASE STUDY：Inland ports 152

Chapter 5 International trade and freight distribution 158

CONCEPTS：1 Transportation，globalization and international trade 158

2 Commodity chains and freight transportation 166

3 Logistics and freight distribution 173

CASE STUDY：Commodity chain analysis：the cold chain 183

Chapter 6 Urban transportation 188

CONCEPTS：1 Transportation and the urban form 188

2 Urban land use and transportation 198

3 Urban mobility 206

4 Urban transport problems 212

CASE STUDY：City logistics 219

Chapter 7 Transportation and the economy 226

CONCEPTS：1 Transportation and economic development 226

2 Transport costs 236

3 Transport supply and demand 243

CASE STUDY：The cruise industry 249

Chapter 8 Transport，energy and environment 255

CONCEPTS：1 The environmental impacts of transportation 255

2 Transportation and energy 261

3 Transport and sustainability 269

CASE STUDY：Green logistics 274

Chapter 9 Transport planning and policy 280

CONCEPTS：1 The nature of transport policy 280

2 Transport planning 285

3 Transport safety and security 291

4 Transportation and disasters 294

CASE STUDY：Transportation and pandemics 299

Chapter 10 Methods in transport geography 304

METHODS：1 Methods in transport geography 304

2 Graph theory：definition and properties 307

3 Graph theory：measures and indices 312

4 Geographic Information Systems for Transportation （GIS-T） 317

5 The notion of accessibility 322

6 Network data models 328

7 Transport technical and economic performance indicators 333

8 The Gini coefficient 337

9 Spatial interactions and the gravity model 340

10 Market area analysis 345

11 The policy process 351

Conclusion：Issues and challenges in transport geography 356

Glossary 364

Index 396