An Introduction to Transportation Geography: Transport, Mobility, and Place
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This clear text provides a broad introduction to transportation geography. With an emphasis on the social and political aspects of transport, Julie Cidell takes a multi-scalar approach across multiple modes and places. She covers waterborne transport, starting with logistics systems; aviation and air travel; railroads; roads (including bicycles and pedestrians as well as cars); and public transit. Each mode covers global systems of transportation, how national identities or landscapes are shaped by transport, the impact of regional governance, the local scale and how it integrates with each of these systems, and how individuals and bodies are part of these systems as well. Throughout, Cidell considers the concepts of equity and sustainability in terms of past, present, and possible future transportation systems. She provides historical and current perspectives to help us think about our present situation and how we might work toward more sustainable transport futures.
- Organized mode-by-mode, with an alternate scale-by-scale table of contents
- Discussion questions to reinforce key concepts and terms
- Emphasis on real-world examples
- Introduces embodied and lived experience into the study of transportation geography
- Includes examples from over twenty different countries in nine world regions
- Gives equal weight to all major modes of transport
- Incorporates new research on mobilities and mobility justice
Introducing Transportation Geography
Organization of This Book
Thinking Broadly about Transport
Final Introductory Thoughts
2 Moving Stuff around the World: Shipping, Waterways, and Logistics
2.1. Moving Stuff around the World
Shipping Containers and Global Logistics
Containers and Economic Globalization
Conclusion
2.2. National Waterways
Building Waterways
Using the Waterways
Reusing the Waterways
Conclusion
2.3. Shipping and Spin-Offs
Breaking the Bulk
Shipping Containers and a New Kind of Bulk
Conclusion
2.4. Where Water and Land Meet: The Anyport Model
Stage One: Primitive or Medieval Ports
Stage Two: Expanding Cityport
Stage Three: Modern Industrial
Stage Four: Specialization
Stage Five: Redevelopment
Anyport beyond the Coastline
Beyond the Individual Cityport
Conclusion
2.5. Working on the Water
Longshoremen
Polynesian Navigation
Conclusion
3 Flying Around: Aviation, Airports, and Airlines
3.1. Flying around the World
Geographies of Air Travel
Power Relations
Aeromobility
Conclusion
3.2. National Governments and Aviation
Aviation and National Identity
Regulating Aviation
Deregulating Aviation
From Deregulation to Privatization
Conclusion
3.3. Aviation and Metropolitan Regions
Airports and Regional Economic Development
The Southwest Effect
Low-Cost Carriers
Conclusion
3.4. Airports on the Local Scale
Airport-City Relationships
The Aerotropolis Concept
Conclusion
3.5. Aviation and the Individual
Airport Security and Surveillance
Airport Noise and Emissions
Conclusion
4 Riding the Rails: Railroads, Trains, and Trails
4.1. Railways as International, Not Global
Background on the Belt and Road Initiative
The Silk Railroad?
The Globalization of Chinese Railroads
Conclusion
4.2. Railroads as Empire-Builders
Extracting Resources with Railroads
The US Midwest
Colonies as Resource Extraction
Establishing Power from a Distance
Conclusion
4.3. Creating New Regions through Fixed Links
The Channel Tunnel
The Øresund Fixed Link
Conclusion
4.4. Railroads on the Local Scale
Railroad Deregulation
Redeveloping the Rails
Rails to Trails
Railyards to Yards
High-Speed Rail and Local Development
Conclusion
4.5. The Body and Trains
The Need for Speed
Sharing Space
Conclusion
5 Automobility: Cars, Roads, and Streets
5.1. Automobility
Automobility as an Industry
Cars as Objects of Consumption
Automobility and Individual Mobility
Automobility as the Dominant Culture
Automobility and Natural Resource Use
Automobility as a “Machinic Complex”
Conclusion
5.2. National Highway Networks
Premodern Roads
Building a National Highway System
The Effects of the US Interstate Highway System
The Golden Quadrilateral
Conclusion
5.3. Roads and the Regional Environment
Regional Air Pollution
Lead Emissions
Particulate Matter
Nitrogen Dioxide
Ozone Production
Evacuations
Severing Regional Links
Conclusion
5.4. Local Roads
The UTMS
Trip Generation
Trip Distribution
Modal Split
Trip Assignment
Modeling Urban Transportation
Local Streets and Privatization
Conclusion
5.5. Roads on the Scale of the Body
Cycling Choices
Velomobility
Walking the Streets
Street Culture
Micromobilities
Conclusion
6 Taking Transit: Metros, Light-Rail, and Transit-Oriented Development
6.1. Transit on the Global Scale
Bus Rapid Transit
Policy Mobilities
Conclusion
6.2. India’s Metros: National Transit?
Countering the Rise of the Automobile
“Message in a Metro”
Conclusion
6.3. Public Transit and Metropolitan Form
The Walking City (1800–1890)
The Streetcar Era (1890–1920)
The Recreational Auto Era (1920–1945)
The Freeway Era (1945–??)
A New Era?
Conclusion
6.4. Local Transit
Turning Back to Transit
Transit-Oriented Development
Transportation Gentrification
Informal Transport
Conclusion
6.5. Transit on the Scale of the Body
The Civil Rights Era
Mobility Justice
Conclusion
7 Intermodalism
The Politics of Pipelines
Multimodalism and Intermodalism
Mobility as a Service (MaaS)
Conclusion
Index
Julie Cidell deftly guides readers toward a deep understanding of the spatial, social, cultural, and economic implications of the main transportation technologies and the mobility systems they support. Accessible writing and probing discussion questions combine to create a wonderful introductory text.
Organized by transport mode as well as according to geographical scale, this excellent textbook offers a social science perspective on transport that is both comprehensive and clear. It is an essential guide for undergraduate courses in which transport is taught as a technological, social, economic, and political system and that aim to stimulate students to think critically about the many rapid changes that transport is currently experiencing.
Providing both a comprehensive guide to transportation geography and a primer on exciting developments in the field, such as micromobilities, and crucial debates, such as transportation equity, this text is a must-read for anyone interested in transportation geography. The innovative organization of material across scales ranging from that of the human body to the global ties nicely to broader trends in human geography.
- Title: An Introduction to Transportation Geography: Transport, Mobility, and Place
- Author: Julie Cidell
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2021
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781538129401, 9781538129388, 1538129388, 153812940X
- Resource ID: LLS:9781538129401
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-05-24T21:29:02Z
Julie Cidell is professor of geography and GIS at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.