The Geography of Transport Systems

by Jean-Paul Rodrigue

This expanded and revised sixth edition of The Geography of Transport Systems provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field with a broad overview of its concepts, methods, and areas of application. It explores the spatial aspects of transportation and focuses on how the mobility of passengers and freight is linked with geography.

The book is divided into ten chapters, each covering a specific conceptual dimension, including networks, modes, terminals, freight transportation, urban transportation, and environmental impacts, and updated with the latest information available. The sixth edition offers new and updated material on information technologies and mobility, e-commerce, transport and the economy, mobility and society, supply chains, security, pandemics, energy and the environment, and climate change. With over 140 updated figures and maps, The Geography of Transport Systems presents transportation systems at different scales ranging from global to local.

This volume is an essential resource for undergraduates studying transportation, as well as those interested in economic and urban geography, transport planning and engineering. A companion website, which contains additional material such as photographs, maps, figures, and PowerPoint presentations, has been developed for the book and can be found

Genres: Geography, Transport, Urban Planning

388 pages, Hardcover

First published January 10, 2006

Reviews

[Elizabeth · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read for MTM 250 - Transportation and the Environment class at SJSU. Read Ch. 4, 7, 8, 9, and parts of 11 and 12.

Tone of this book was very frustrating—stayed very factual and did not convey much vision for how transportation could be in the future. Conveyed climate change as something that still is in debate. Gave the impression that public transportation systems are failures when they have to be subsidized. Maybe I’m used to reading justice and vision-oriented texts but this ultimate centrist one got me writing all sorts of snarky and critical notes.

On the one positive side, this text made me consider the issue of freight transportation in a more wholistic way.

[Navneet Bhushan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an interesting book I found online, while searching for something like future of transport. I found this a useful book in the fact it addresses multi-disciplinary nature of Transport systems and they way they are evolving and may evolve. The key issues in such a book will always be the needed depth in relevant areas - that of course depends upon the authors interests and expertise. Of course matching with readers interests and depths. Nevertheless, it is an interesting and important book for non-expert to contextualize the and understand transport systems.

[Katherine · Rating 4 out of 5]

SUCH A COOL BOOK! I’m surprised this book doesn’t have higher ratings. This was one of the most interesting and applicable books I have ever read. It really changed the way I view “sustainability”. The emphasis on sustainability in all aspects of design, not just during usage, is not something I have never considered. We are quite “Green Washed” in believing that systems are sustainable purely by viewing their operability stages. But sustainability takes place across all phases of the life cycle. I was not very educated in locomotive transport, and I now feel much more adept. Truly, great read.

[Kristy · Rating 1 out of 5]

There are a lot of flaws in the formulas presented in this book. I would not recommend this text.