The Geography of Transport Systems

Rodrigue, Jean-Paul; Comtois, Claude; Slack, Brian

doi:10.4324/9780429346323

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“…Of course, the modal shift can also be affected by natural disasters (natural, man-made) except of pandemics. Specifically, natural (e.g., earthquake) and man-made (e.g., terrorist attack) can redirect passengers' choices towards the use of individual means of transport (e.g., car or carpooling) characterized by higher capacity and resiliency [43]. Additionally, disasters can also alter tourists' travel decisions and experience [44].…”

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The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Resilience of Sustainable Mobility in Sicily

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The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented measures changing travel habits in many countries. Many users have started to prefer traveling by private cars, which is against the sustainability policies of the European cities. The necessity of gaining a deeper understanding of road users’ travel habit changes, their feelings on public transport use, and their perceptions of using sustainable urban mobility modes has emerged for future transport planning. Considering these facts, the study in this paper aimed to investigate the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on road users’ perceptions, needs, and use of sustainable travel modes (i.e., public transport, walking, and cycling). An online survey was carried out during the period from March to May 2020 in the case study area, Sicily of Southern Italy. Regarding the population of the case study, the survey was representative, with 431 individuals. The survey included variables, namely gender, age, city of residence, private car ownership, walking and cycling frequency before and during the pandemic, public transport use frequency for leisure activities before and during the pandemic, need for remote working, and the stress and anxiety perception of using public transport during the pandemic. The analysis started with descriptive statistics and it was followed by correlation analysis in order to explore the characteristics of the dataset and relationship between variables. It was found that these were not statistically significantly correlated at a 95% confidence level. An ordinal regression model was applied for determining the predictions. The results suggested that women were less likely to walk during the pandemic than men. Participants were more likely to resume remote work even after the second phase in order to reduce their daily travel needs and keep their isolation. Participants have expressed a positive opinion on the use of micromobility during pandemic situations. These results can be considered as a basis for sustainable urban planning and a guide for decision-makers who aim to encourage the use of public transport, walking, cycling, and micromobility.

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“…The ocean space is traditionally seen as being "empty of men" (Frémont, 1996) and as an "empty territory" (Corbin, 2010). The absence of a tangible infrastructure, contrary to road and railway networks, as well as its scale beyond regional and national planning systems, tended to blur its understanding as a coherent entity (White and Senior, 1983;Rodrigue, 2020). In history and area studies, seas and oceans are most often seen as obstacles and divisions rather than interfaces (Bentley, 1999;Lewis and Wigen, 1999).…”

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“…In their analysis of a scientific corpus, Danisch and Guillaume (2014) found that the term "global shipping network" stood apart from the semantic community "graph theory", suggesting that maritime studies often referred to networks without adopting mathematical methods. Maritime networks are non-planar graphs, as links may cross each other without creating a node (Rodrigue, 2020). Topology relates with the overall structure of the graph made of nodes (vertices) and links (edges), a rather abstract space compared with the more common flowmap.…”

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The geography of maritime networks: A critical review

Ducruet

2020

Journal of Transport Geography

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Despite early cartographical and graph-theoretical analyses of maritime flows in the 1940s and 1960s, it is only from the 2000s onwards that maritime network analysis had grown apace, backed by newly available shipping data, increased computational power, and renewed conceptual frameworks to study networks in general. The evolution of maritime network analysis, in geography and other sciences, is marked by a wide diversity of methods and themes, which we classify into three main parts. We first present studies looking at maritime flows in an abstract space, focusing on operational, statistical, or managerial aspects where navigation, graph structure, and firms' strategies are the key concerns. Second, we review researches where maritime flows and networks are markers and vectors of wider geo-economic structures and dynamics, such as regional inequalities and areas of dominance. Lastly, maritime networks have also been considered as integral parts of territories and wider chained systems, such as urban networks, regional networks, and coupled networks. We conclude that network analysis and maritime transport still share many uncovered areas and discuss potential research pathways for future works.

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“…freight transport also creates considerable negative externalities; damage from infrastructure construction (destruction and dissection of landscapes) and transport services (climate change, air pollution, noise, traffic accidents, congestion) [13].…”

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Towards more environmentally sustainable intercontinental freight transport

Bal¹,

Vleugel²

2020

Int. J. TDI

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towards more environmentally sustainable intercontinental freight transport frans bal 1 & Jaap vleugel 2 1 university of applied sciences, the netherlands 2 delft university of technology, the netherlands abstract in a world where the population and many economies are expanding rapidly the demand for freight transport keeps rising accordingly. as more goods are transported by a growing number of freight vehicles, in particular trucks and sea vessels, their already considerable negative environmental impact also rises. technology advances, but demand growth (partially) counteracts its positive impact on fuel consumption and emissions. in road transport, co 2-emissions keep rising, while emissions of no x and pm 10 have been reduced, at least in those countries where the most advanced engine technologies are used, although locally serious problems may remain. in areas where such technologies are not available, more freight transport means higher emissions and negative health effects. sea shipping sees increasing emission levels overall. maritime transport and trucking dominate intercontinental freight transport. modernisation of railways and roads offers opportunities to reduce emissions by using rail for part of the journey. in a market setting, this means that transport providers have to redesign transport chains. some have done this already, while others are increasingly interested. to assess the potential, the following main research question was addressed: is it possible to reduce emissions of co 2 , no x and pm 10 by replacing the maritime leg of a transport service by road and/or rail transport in the corridor antwerp (belgium)-shanghai (china) without logistic penalties? various combinations of trucking, sea and rail transport were fed into a simulation model to estimate the accompanying emissions and trip times. the new services offer a complex range of positive and negative impacts; hence governments should carefully consider their support. in a simulation study only a very stylised representation of these services can be modelled. this leads to an advice for a more in-depth study to include additional (technical, service and cost) data.

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The Geography of Transport Systems

Cited by 874 publications

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The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Resilience of Sustainable Mobility in Sicily

The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Resilience of Sustainable Mobility in Sicily

The geography of maritime networks: A critical review

Towards more environmentally sustainable intercontinental freight transport

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