Transportation is not a science, but a field of inquiry and application. As such, it tends to rely on a set of specific methodologies since transportation is a performance-driven activity and this performance can be measured and compared. Transportation planning and analysis are interdisciplinary by nature, involving among others, civil engineers, economists, urban planners, and geographers. Each discipline has developed methodologies dealing with its respective array of problems. Still, transportation is an infrastructure intensive activity, implying that engineering has been the dominant methodological paradigm for transportation studies. The development of information technologies has allowed transportation geography to analyze an increasingly complex and data-rich set of methodologies.
Overview
- A.1 – Methods in Transport Geography
- A.2 – Geographic Information Systems for Transportation (GIS-T)
- A.3 – Symbolization of Transport Features in a GIS
- A.4 – Transportation and Accessibility
Transport-Related Methods
- A.5 – Graph Theory: Definitions and Properties
- A.6 – Graph Theory: Measures and Indices
- A.7 – Network Data Models
- A.8 – The Route Selection Process
- A.9 – Linear Programming
- A.10 – Transport Technical and Economic Performance Indicators
- A.11 – Traffic Counts and Traffic Surveys
- A.12 – Transportation / Land Use Modeling
- A.13 – The Lowry Model
Multidisciplinary Methods
- A.14 – Location Analysis
- A.15 – Market Area Analysis
- A.16 – The Specialization Index and the Location Coefficient
- A.17 – The Gini Coefficient
- A.18 – Spatial Interactions and the Gravity Model
- A.19 – The Policy Process
- A.20 – Transportation Environmental Management
- A.21 – Delphi Forecasting
- A.22 – Cost-Benefits Analysis