The Transportation Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers encourages and
facilitates interactions among individuals who are interested in research,
practice, and education of transportation-related topics.
All members of the AAG with an interest in transportation geography are
encouraged to join the TGSG. Dues are $5 (students, $2) in addition to the
normal AAG dues. Further information and forms are available on the
AAG web site.
Mobile Ghent '13: Ghent, Belgium, 23-25 October 2013.
The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers and experts
from around the world to discuss emerging topics and research findings across
various fields related to location tracking.
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93rd Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting:
Washington, DC, 12-16 January 2014. The TRB Committee on the Social and
Economic Factors of Transportation (ADD20) and its Subcommittee on Community
Impact Assessment (CIA) (ADD20(1)) encourage all transportation researchers and
practitioners to submit papers for presentation. Papers on a broad range of
topics related to the direct, indirect and/or cumulative socio-cultural and
economic effects of transportation systems are welcomed. Deadline 1 August 2013.
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Los Angeles Rail Transit Gold / Red Lines and
Transit-Oriented Development Field Trip
Andrew Goetz (University of Denver) and Keith Ratner (Salem State University)
organized a field trip to visit transit-oriented development along Los Angeles'
gold light-rail and red subway lines. The field trip was sponsored by the
Transportation Specialty Group and the Urban Specialty Group.
The tour was focused on the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority (Metro)
Joint Development Program,
"a real property asset development and management program designed to
secure the most appropriate private and/or public sector development on
Metro-owned property at and adjacent to transit stations and corridors."
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Student Award Winners
TGSG Chairperson Selima Sultana and
2013 Student Dissertation Award winner Woo Jang
The 2013 PhD Student Dissertation Award was awarded to
Woo Jang (University of Georgia)
for his dissertation work entitled, Spatial dynamics of disaggregated urban
commuting patterns, supervised by Xiaobai Yao.
The 2013 Master's Student Competition Award was awarded to
Benjamin Lundberg (University of Alabama)
for his thesis, Accessibility and university populations: Local effects on
non-motorized transportation in the Tuscaloosa-Northport area,
supervised by Joe Weber.
High Speed Rail in America: Promise and Peril
The Transport Geography
Specialty Group sponsored this panel discussion on 26 February 2012 at the Association of American
Geographers Annual Meeting, New York, NY. The panel discussion was organized in conjunction
with a special HSR viewpoint issue of the
Journal of Transport Geography
Part 1: Bradley Lane (University of Texas, El Paso)
Part 8: Dedicated vs. shared lines, Paying for it, Integration with air travel
Part 9: Classes of service, Who should run the service?
Journal of Transport Geography
A major resurgence has occurred in transport geography in the wake of
political and policy changes, huge transport infrastructure projects and
responses to urban traffic congestion.
The Journal of Transport Geography
provides a central focus for developments in this rapidly expanding
sub-discipline. The aim is to bring together contributions from the major
strands of current transport geography research:
Transport policy practice and analysis, especially the impacts of deregulation, privatization and subsidy control
Infrastructure impact on trip making, the spatial economy and regional development
Technological innovation in transport and telecommunications and global and regional economic integration
The growing mobility gap between rich and poor and differential accessibility to jobs and services
Transport, environment and energy
Travel, recreation and tourism
Spatial and behavioral aspects of modeling transport demand
Methodological developments
The role and utility of Geographical Information Systems in transport research.
Articles and viewpoints for the Journal of Transport Geography may be
submitted through the
Elsevier Website...
TGSG offers two annual awards and sponsors a lecture series.
The Edward L. Ullman Award
The Edward L. Ullman Award is offered by the Transportation
Geography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers
since 1990 for outstanding contributions to the field of transportation
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Each year the TGSG board evaluates and votes on the candidacies
submitted to the Chair before the deadline of December 15. A proposal
must include a letter of introduction (preferably by someone familiar
with the work of the candidate) and a complete curriculum vitae.
Past recipients include:
2013 - John S. Adams. Dr. Adams is well known in the field of transport and urban geography for his
four eras of intrametroplitan growth showing the relationship between urban
growth and transportation development in the U.S. He was one of the few
distinguished scholars who realized many years ago that transport and urban
professionals should work together, not separately. Thus, throughout his
career, Dr. Adams' work has not only centered on transportation alone, but
has considered transportation as an integral part of urban geography,
connected to housing, employment, industry, and regional growth and change.
2012 - Jean-Claude Thill.
Dr. Thill's career has included contributions to
spatial analysis and spatial modeling, along with GIS-T and data mining,
concerning routing problems, bicycle and pedestrian crash analysis, airline
flows, and port competitiveness. He also established a graduate certificate
program in Transportation and Business Geographics at UNCC and is currently
Executive Director of the North American Regional Science Council.
2011 - David Greene.
Dr. Greene's work applies interdisciplinary
research findings to national transportation energy and environmental policy.
Beginning as a research associate at ORNL in 1977, he is now a senior research
staff member for the Center of Transportation Analysis within the Energy
Division. He serves as the manager of the Energy Policy Research Programs. From
1982 to the present, Dr. Greene has been a chairman or member of numerous
committees for the Transportation Research Board of the National Research
Council, including committees on energy conservation and transportation demand,
forecasting transportation energy demand, energy and environmental concerns,
alternative fuels, freight transportation data, transportation information
systems and data requirements, and the impacts of highway capacity improvements
on air quality and energy consumption. Dr. Greene has written more than 150
professional journal articles, contributions to books, and technical reports.
He has served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Transportation and
Statistics and currently serves on the editorial boards of Journal of
Transportation and Statistics, Energy Policy, Macmillan Encyclopedia of Energy,
Transportation Quarterly, and Transportation Research Part D. Dr. Greene was
elected a member emeritus of the Transportation Research Board Standing
Committee on Transportation Energy in 1998. He was honored in 1989 and 1993 by
a Distinguished Service Certificate from the Transportation Research Board. He
received the Energy Specialty Group Paper Award from the Association of
American Geographers in 1986 and the Pyke Johnson Award from the Transportation
Research Board, National Academy of Science, in 1984. He is a member of the
Association of American Geographers, the Society of Automotive Engineers, and
the International Association for Energy Economics. He was named a corporate
fellow in 1999.
2010 - Andrew Goetz. One the world's preeminent
air transportation geographers and is also one of the disciplines
leading authorities on intermodal transportation. He has published
over 30 refereed articles on air transport, intermodal transportation,
and transport planning. In addition to the refereed articles
he has published two books; Denver International Airport: Lessons
Learned and Airline Deregulation and Laissez-Faire Mythology. The
latter was later translated into Japanese. He has also published
numerous invited chapters in books focusing on a wide range of transport
topics including but not limited to planning, deregulation, and
policy implications.
2009 - Harvey Miller. Best known for his seminal text
on transportation GIS, published in 2001 and co-authored with Professor
Shih-lung Shaw. Equally important has been his work in time geography,
time-space geography and the analysis of accessibility in urban
spaces. He has published over 35 peer-reviewed papers in the most
outstanding journals in his field and over 15 book chapters
2008 - Shih-Lung Shaw. Considered a leader in the field
of geographic information systems for transportation (GIS-T), Dr.
Shih-Lung Shaw has published dozens of book chapters, conference
proceedings, and journal articles, including in the first issue
of Journal of Transport Geography as well as securing a variety
of research grants. He co-authored a well-received text, Geographic
Information Systems for Transportation: Principles and Applications
(2001). One of Dr. Shaw's most important and ongoing contributions
to the rapidly growing field of GIS-T has been in the representation
and analysis of temporal patterns. Dr. Shih-Lung Shaw has won numerous
awards for his teaching and has served the transport geography community
in many ways, including as chair of the TGSG.
2007 - T. R. Lakshmanan. Established a long record of
success as a private sector consultant on urban and transportation
planning, as a professor of geography, and as one of the first directors
of the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Professor Lakshmanan
has won dozens of grants from agencies including the National Science
Foundation. His research has emphasized the economic and environmental
impacts of transportation systems. Professor Lakshmanan's publications
include many articles, monographs, and books including Structural
Change in Transportation and Communications in the Knowledge Society
(2005) which he co-edited with Kiyoshi Kobayashi and William Anderson.
2006 - Barry Wellar. Recognized as a leader in transportation
research for his insights into optimization techniques, interactive
land use-transportation models, applications of GIS in transportation
planning, new approaches in the design and implementation of alternative
transportation strategies, and new thinking about the conceptualization
of the sustainable transportation test. Throughout his career as
professor, public servant and consultant, Dr. Wellar has demonstrated
an exceptional ability to combine theories, methods, and empirical
evidence from a number of disciplines, including geography, economics,
mathematics, operations research, planning, civil engineering, sociology,
political science and computers/communications.
2005 - Mei-Po Kwan. Combined the theoretical and empirical
consideration of accessibility with visualization using innovative
GIS tools. She has been influential in developing innovative work
on the relationships between Information & Communication Technology
(ICT) and travel behavior, and modeling of emergency response through
3D network analysis. She thus has contributed to set the agenda
in transportation and communication, spatial representation, and
mobility.
2004 - Richard Knowles. Professor of Transport Geography
in the School of Environment and Life Sciences at the University
of Salford, UK and a member of its Research Institute for the Built
and Human Environment. He has been the Editor of the Journal of
Transport Geography (the international quarterly research journal
published by Elsevier) since its establishment in 1993. Dr. Knowles
is co-Editor of Modern Transport Geography (published by Wiley,
2nd Edition 1998) and is also co-Editor of Ashgate Publishing's
Transport and Mobility monograph series. His research has focused
on the effects of transport deregulation, privatization and franchising
and on impacts of new transport infrastructure on transport and
development.
2003 - Kingsley E. Haynes. One of the early geographers
to apply large regional transport planning models. Among his most
significant contribution is his research focused on spatial interaction
modeling, which helped establish a solid conceptual and methodological
background about transport systems and the relationship between
transport systems and regional economic change. His work contributed
to policy debate at the regional and national levels.
2002 - Brian Slack. Among the early contributors to the
understanding of spatial impact of the transport service industry
and instrumental in establishing connections with other areas such
as urban planning through his work on transport terminals and intermodality.
2001 - Thomas Leinbach. Made substantive contributions
to understanding issues of transport delivery and the impacts of
accessibility on rural settlements. He is a master at relating transport
to the broader socio-political and economic context of resettlement
processes, employment behavior, peasant household survival strategies,
human capital formation, and enterprise development.
2000 - Donald Janelle.
1999 - Bruce Ralston.
1998 - Morton O'Kelly.
1997 - Susan Hanson.
1996 - James Vance.
1995 - William R. Black.
1994 - William Garrison.
1993 - No award given.
1992 - Howard Gauthier.
1991 - Harold M. Mayer.
1990 - Edward J. Taaffe.
The TGSG Student Paper Award
Each year, the TGSG awards at the annual conference of the Association
of American Geographers two prizes for outstanding student research in the
field of transport geography. The first prize is for a Ph.D. dissertation
while the second is for a Master thesis. Both prizes involve an honorarium
of $250 each. Runners-up for the two awards may, at the discretion of the
TGSG Board, be awarded $100 to defray the costs of presenting their work at
the annual Association of American Geographers (AAG) conference; no more than
five such travel awards will be given in any academic year.
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Eligibility. A Ph.D. or a Master thesis that was completed during
the previous academic year. The thesis has to be submitted by a member of
the Association of American Geographers, which could be the student, the
director of the thesis or the chair of the department. Although thesis in
geography are preferred, thesis coming from related disciplines are accepted.
A thesis can only be submitted once.
Deadline: A copy of the thesis (preferably in an electronic format
such as PDF) has to be sent to the Chair of the TGSG by December 15.
Previous award winners:
2013 (PhD) - Woo Jang (University of Georgia):
Spatial dynamics of disaggregated urban commuting patterns
(supervised by Xiaobai Yao)
2013 (MA) - Benjamin Lundberg (University of Alabama):
Accessibility and university populations: Local effects on
non-motorized transportation in the Tuscaloosa-Northport area
(supervised by Joe Weber)
2012 (PhD - tie) - Danielle Fontaine (Clark University):
The landscape of potential harm: understanding parents' perceptions of the
built environment and what this means for their decisions about their child's
mode of travel to school in the City of Worcester, MA (supervised by Susan
Hanson and Deb Martin)
2012 (PhD - tie) - Rakim Mitra (University of Toronto):
School travel mode choice behaviour in Toronto, Canada (supervised by Ron Buliung)
2012 (MA) - Monir Moniruzzaman (McMaster University):
Accessibility and built environment effects on transit use (supervised by Antonio Paez)
2011 (MA) Kalina Soltys (Sustrans):
Toward an Understanding of Carpool Formation and Use (Supervisor: Ron Buliung)
2011 (PhD) Tijs Neutens (Ghent University):
Analyzing Human Activities and Travel Possibilities From a Time-geographic Perspective
(Supervisors: Philippe de Maeyer and Frank Witlox)
2010 (MA) Michael Widener (Florida State University):
Modeling Hurricane Disaster Relief Distribution with a Hierarchical
Capacitated-Median Model: an Analysis with Extensions (Supervisor: Michael
Horner)
2010 (PhD) Dilys Bowman (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill):
Commitment, connectivity and the neighbors: Greenway trail placement in North Carolina towns
(Supervisor: Melinda Meade)
2009 (MA) Kathleen Deutsch (University of California at Santa Barbara):
What's So Special About This Place? An Examination of Sense of Place and
It's Correlation to Travel Behavior
2009 (PhD) Hejun Kang (McMaster University):
Moving Beyond the Individual: Activity-Based Modeling
of Time Use and Travel Behavior Incorporating Intra-Household Interactions
2008 (MA) Lisa J. Murawski (University of California-Santa Barbara):
Maximal Covering Network Improvement Problem
2008 (PhD) Barton Cramer (University of Iowa):
American Freight Rail: Regulatory Evolution, Strategic
Rejuvenation, and the Revival of an Ailing Industry
2007 (MA) Laura G. Smith (George Washington University):
Neighborhoods Apart: How the Physical Environment
Reinforces Concentrated Poverty and Isolation East of Washington's Anacostia
River
2007(PhD) Xuwei Chen (Texas State University - San Marcos):
Microsimulation of Evacuation Strategies
2006 (MA) Bradley Lane (Indiana University):
Plains, Trains, and Automobiles: Land Use, Rail Transit, and Urban Travel
in Selected Us Cities
2006 (PhD) Hongbo Yu: (University of Tennessee):
Temporal GIS Design of an Extended Time-Geographic Framework for Physical
and Virtual Activities
2005 (MA) Sean Tierney (Arizona State University):
Airline and Airport Choice by Passengers in Multi-Airport Regions: The
Effect of Southwest Airlines
2004 (PhD) Julie Cidell (University of Minnesota):
Scales of Airport Expansion: Globalization, Regionalization, and Local Land Use
2003(MA) Jessica Tharpe (University of Tennessee):
Sustainable Transportation: A Case Study of Telework
and Carpool in Atlanta, Georgia
2003 (PhD) Xiaohong Xin (University of Tennessee):
An Exploratory Data Analysis Approach for Land
Use - Transportation Interaction: The Design and Implementation of Transland
Spatio-Temporal Data Model
2002 (PhD) Joseph Weber (Ohio State University):
Evaluating the Effects of Context and Scale on
Individual Accessibility: A Multilevel Approach
2001 (MA) Julie Cidell (University of Minnesota):
The Conversion of Military Bases to Civilian Airports
2001 (PhD) Agatino La Rosa (University of Tennessee):
Integrating Location and Logistics Models
2000 (MA - tie) Owen Robatino (University of Delaware):
Evaluating Uses of Abandoned Rights of Way with
a Case Study of the Pomeroy and Newark Railroad
2000 (MA - tie) Xiaohong Xin (University of Tennessee):
A Spatial Decision Support System for Designing
Solid Waste Collection Routes in Rural Counties
2000 (PhD) Brooks C. Pearson (Indiana University):
An Estimation of Potential Production of Agri-based
Ethanol and its Contribution to Transportation Emissions
1999 (MA - tie) Henry J. Rademacher (University of Missouri):
Landscape Interpretation and Historical Geography
on Missouri's Katy Trail
1999 (MA - tie) Kerry Wood (Lincoln University [NZ]):
Bicycle Crashes in New Zealand
1999 (PhD) Garth Banninga (Indiana University):
Static and Dynamic Analyses of Average Worktrip
Travel Times for a Large Set of U.S. Cities.
1998 (MA) Gayle Wilkinson (Arizona State University):
Economic Reform and Jobs-Housing Imbalance in Chinese
Cities: The Case of Shenyang, China
1998 (PhD) Melissa Joy Loughlin (University of Minnesota):
Overseas Air Cargo Service, Airborne Export-Producing
Industries, and U.S. Cities, 1980-1995
1996 (MA) Eric C. Neubauer (Ohio State University)
1996 (Ph.D) Christopher J. Sutton (University of Denver):
The Socioeconomic, Land Use and Land Value Impacts
of Beltways in the Denver Metropolitan Area
1995 (MA) Melissa Joy Loughlin (University of Minnesota)
1995 (PhD) Timothy Strauss (University of Washington):
Spatial Assessments of Infrastructure: The Importance
of Space in Analyses of the Relationship Between Public Capital and Economic
Activity
1994 (MA) Katherine Jones (University of Kentucky):
Impact of Double Stack Rail Service on U.S. Ports
1994 (PhD) Stefan Arredondo (Indiana University):
Railroad Independence in Southern Africa: The Case
of the Southern Africa Development Conference
The Fleming Lecture in Transportation Geography
When in 1992 Professor Douglas Fleming retired from his teaching
career in transportation at the University of Washington (and his earlier
career in merchant shipping), the Department of Geography decided to
create a fund that would enable to offer an honorarium for a distinguished
lecture at the Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers.
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This lectureship, which honors the long tradition of transportation
studies at Washington, including William Garrison and Edward Ullman,
as well as Doug Fleming, is designed to recognize outstanding contributions
in the field. Since the Transportation Geography Specialty Group includes
most of the academic specialists as well as many people in the transportation
sectors of the economy, the department at Washington solicits the recommendation
each year of an outstanding person to honor. Past speakers include:
2013 - Jean-Claude Thill
2011 - Kevin O'Connor
2010 - Harvey Miller
2009 - Shih-Lung Shaw
2008 - T. R. Lakshmanan
2007 - Barry Wellar
2006 - Mei Po Kwan
2005 - Richard Knowles
2004 - Kingsley Haynes
2003 - Brian Slack
2002 - Yehuda Hayuth
2001 - Andrew Goetz
2000 - William Black
1999 - Thomas Leinbach
1998 - Donald Janelle
1997 - Morton O'Kelly
1996 - Susan Hanson
1995 - Gordon Fielding
1994 - William Garrison
1993 - Edward Taaffe
Selima Sultana (Chair, 2-year term ending Spring 2014)
Department of Geography
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
224 Graham Building
Greensboro, NC 27412
Tel: 336-334-3895
Fax: 336-334-5864
s_sultan [at] uncg.edu
Website
Yves Boquet (Vice Chair, 2-year term ending Spring 2015)
Département de Géographie
Universite de Bourgogne
U.F.R. de Sciences Humaines
2 Bd Gabriel
21000 Dijon, France
Tel: 03 80 39 57 30
yves.boquet [at] u-bourgogne.fr
Website
Woo Jang (two-year term ending 2015)
Department of Geography
Minnesota State University
Armstrong Hall 7
Mankato, MN 56001
Tel: 507-389-2617
Fax: 507-389-2980
woo-suk.jang [at] mnsu.edu
Website
Rich Quodomine (two-year term ending 2015)
New York State Department of Transportation
50 Wolf Road, POD 54
Albany, New York 12232
Tel: (518) 457-8346
rich.quodomine [at] dot.ny.gov
Website
Steven Farber (two year term ending 2014)
Geography Department
University of Utah
Orson Spencer Hall
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Tel: 801-585-9167
Steven.Farber [at] geog.utah.edu
Website
Tijs Neutens (two year term ending 2014)
Department of Geography
Ghent University
Krijgslaan 281, S8
9000 Ghent, Belgium
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 46 96
Fax: +32 (0)9 264 49 85
tijs.neutens [at] ugent.be
Website
Jae Hyun Lee (student representative, two year term ending 2013)
Department of Geography
University of California, Santa Barbara
1832 Ellison Hall
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060
Tel: (805) 893-3663
Fax: (805) 893-2578
lee [at] geog.ucsb.edu
Website
