Transport and Mobility: Transport and Mobility
About the Book Series
The inception of this series marks a major resurgence of geographical research into transport and mobility. Reflecting the dynamic relationships between socio-spatial behaviour and change, it acts as a forum for cutting-edge research into transport and mobility, and for innovative and decisive debates on the formulation and repercussions of transport policy making.
Gender Smart Mobility: Concepts, Methods, and Practices
1st Edition
By Hilda Rømer Christensen, Michala Hvidt Breengaard, Lena Levin
November 28, 2024
This book presents gender and diversity in smart transport as a cutting-edge issue in urban contexts around the globe. It addresses new challenges and possibilities related to the smart transport sector. It demonstrates how gender and diversity are entangled in concepts and various forms of current...
Spaces for Highly Mobile People: Emerging Practices of Mobility in Italy
1st Edition
By Bruna Vendemmia
May 06, 2022
This book explores how emerging mobility practices have transformed spaces in order to fit the needs of highly mobile people, as well as the changing relationship between people and territory. It establishes an interdisciplinary and a multiscalar approach to mobility analysis and mobility design ...
Gendering Smart Mobilities
1st Edition
Edited
By Tanu Priya Uteng, Hilda Rømer Christensen, Lena Levin
December 13, 2021
This book considers gender perspectives on the ‘smart’ turn in urban and transport planning to effect-ively provide ‘mobility for all’ while simultaneously attending to the goal of creating green and inclusive cities. It deals with the conceptualisation, design, planning, and execution of the ...
Intermodal Freight Terminals: A Life Cycle Governance Framework
1st Edition
By Jason Monios, Rickard Bergqvist
September 30, 2020
Much work has been done on port governance yet little has addressed intermodal terminal governance, despite the clear similarities. This book fills that gap by establishing a governance framework for situating analysis of intermodal terminals throughout their life cycle. A version of the product ...
Geographies of Transport and Mobility: Prospects and Challenges in an Age of Climate Change
1st Edition
By Stewart Barr, Jan Prillwitz, Tim Ryley, Gareth Shaw
July 31, 2020
Geographies of Transport and Mobility aims to provide a comprehensive and evidenced account of the intellectual and pragmatic challenges for personal mobility in the twenty-first century. In doing so, it argues that geographers have a key role to play in shaping academic and policy debates on ...
Spaces of Congestion and Traffic: Politics and Technologies in Twentieth-Century London
1st Edition
By David Rooney
June 30, 2020
This book provides a political history of urban traffic congestion in the twentieth century, and explores how and why experts from a range of professional disciplines have attempted to solve what they have called ‘the traffic problem’.It draws on case studies of historical traffic projects in ...
Urban Mobilities in the Global South
1st Edition
Edited
By Tanu Priya Uteng, Karen Lucas
December 12, 2019
The book considers urban mobilities and immobilities in the Global South through an exploration of the theoretical and methodological entry points that can be used to further the agenda of transport planning. Transport system improvements can (and do) have complex and unequal impacts on different ...
Community-Owned Transport
1st Edition
By Leigh Glover
December 19, 2018
City and state governments around the world are struggling to achieve environmentally sustainable transport. Economic, technological, city and transport planning and human behaviour solutions are often hampered by ineffective implementation. So attention is now turning to institutional, ...
Territorial Implications of High Speed Rail: A Spanish Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By José M. de Ureña
February 01, 2017
High Speed Rail's (HSR) main objective is to attract air passengers between big metropolitan areas however the main territorial implications in many cases occur not in these metropolitan areas but in the intermediate cities. These implications open up new spatial planning possibilities such as ...
Ports, Cities, and Global Supply Chains
1st Edition
Edited
By James Wang, Daniel Olivier, Theo Notteboom, Brian Slack
November 28, 2016
Global trends in policy and technology related fields are rapidly reshaping the port industry worldwide. International in scope, this volume provides multidisciplinary insights into the role port cities adopt in dealing with global supply chains. Throughout the book, concepts of strategic ...
A Mobile Century?: Changes in Everyday Mobility in Britain in the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
By Colin G. Pooley, Jean Turnbull, Mags Adams
November 10, 2016
For most people in the developed world, the ability to travel freely on a daily basis is almost taken for granted. Although there is a large volume of literature on contemporary mobility and associated transport problems, there are no comprehensive studies of the ways in which these trends have ...
The City as a Terminal: The Urban Context of Logistics and Freight Transport
1st Edition
By Markus Hesse
November 10, 2016
The on-time delivery of goods is regarded as a primary factor of the urban economy and is being monitored by businesses and government alike. However, much analysis of freight transportation and the flow of goods into, out of and within urban areas focuses on functional, business-related ...