Plurality of methods and conceptual renewal in the transport geography of twenty first century

Abstract

Transport Geography enjoys nowadays very differentiated approaches and methodological treatments, in consonance with the evolution and development of current tendencies of geographic thought. One of the most interesting and fruitful contributions of recent years is the technological application of GISs to transport analysis, management and planning. However, the revision of classical concepts such as accessibility, distance or mobility keeps producing new theoretical and methodological contributions, as these concepts are relative, changing, much like spatial relation systems. In conclusion, it is the increasingly apparent contrasts between developed and developing zones, the emergence of new high-mobility spaces, and the changes in supply and demand patterns – closely related to globalisation and post-Fordism – that currently shape the spatial dimension of transport systems, and modulate the scientific production.