The Geography of Transport Systems

In trying to find a more comprehensive history of city transportation, I found The Geography of Transport Systems, a (text?) book that is also available online. While most of the book is available online, some sections are missing to entice people in buying the whole things. I highly suggest getting a copy to keep around our project space.

While the book covers the broader topic of transportation relating to people, freight, and information (though this part is minimal), it has a great deal of historical information pertaining to transportation (and the broader topic of land management) along with numerical data to back up many of the claims and highlight recent trends. There is also a chapter devoted to urban transport which is a great reference.

Each section of the book is separated into three parts: concepts, methods, and applications. The concepts section is a great overview of the issues at hand while the methods and applications are very scientific and in-depth, which may be beyond what we want to be looking at this stage.

While I was originally planning to bring out the more interesting sections in one long blog post like I've been doing with everything I've been wallowing through, I think that will be too long and scattered for one post. I'll try to find some cohesive themes to focus the posts, but I highly suggest everyone to at least skim through the first chapter to get a sense of the language behind describing transportation (i.e. accessibility).