Handbook of Transport Geography and Spatial Systems
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Author(s): D. Hensher et al.
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080441084
Format: hardback
672pp
Price: £113.50, $170.00, €170
Review Date: 13 May 2005
Review: This is the fifth volume in the Handbooks in transport Series. The handbook concentrates on the geographical aspects of transportation. The book is divided into ten parts. It begins by providing a broad overview of the spatial aspects of transport, reviews the history of transportation geography, the continued role of theory in transport, and the related evolution of urban centres. The second part outlines the links between transport and spatial form, and explores the ways in which transport influences urban form, and the main ways in which transport is an enabler and shaper of economic and spatial growth. Part 3 discusses different paradigms that have been used to model land use, and the interactions of land use changes and transportation. The following seven parts look at: Data; GIS applications; GPS applications; Traffic monitoring using GPS; Spatial cognition; Geosimulation; Networks; and Time use.