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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Achieving Sustainable Mobility: Everyday and Leisure-time Travel in the EU
1st Edition
By Erling Holden
October 31, 2016
Sustainable mobility has become the new imperative for transport policy. There have been a number of policy attempts at sustainable mobility globally, such as the development of more efficient conventional transport technologies, the promotion of efficient and affordable public transport systems ...
Innovation in Public Transport Finance: Property Value Capture
1st Edition
By Shishir Mathur
September 06, 2016
With all levels of governments currently, and for the foreseeable future, under significant fiscal stress, any new transit funding mechanism is to be welcomed. Value capture (VC) is one such mechanism, which involves the identification and capture of a public infrastructure-led increase in property...
The Geographies of Air Transport
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew R. Goetz, Lucy Budd
September 06, 2016
Making a detailed contribution to geographies of air transport and aeromobility, this book examines the practices and processes that produce particular patterns of air transport provision both regionally and globally. In so doing, it updates the seminal contributions of Eva Taylor (1945), Kenneth ...