An Introduction to Transportation Geography: Transport, Mobility, and Place

by Julie Cidell

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538129395
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/22/2021
Series:	Exploring Geography
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.55(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Julie Cidell is professor of geography and GIS at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Table of Contents

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 &'slash;resund 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

Editorial Reviews

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.

Peter V. Hall

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.

Carol Atkinson-Palombo

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.

Tim Schwanen