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<p><span>This clear text provides a broad introduction to transportation geography, emphasizing the social and political aspects of transport and how global systems affect local places and people. Julie Cidell provides historical and current perspectives to help us think about our present situation and how we might work toward more sustainable transport futures.</span></p>

<p><span>Introducing Transportation Geography </span></p>
<p><span>Organization of This Book </span></p>
<p><span>Thinking Broadly about Transport </span></p>
<p><span>Final Introductory Thoughts </span></p>
<p><span>2 </span><span>Moving Stuff around the World: Shipping, Waterways, and Logistics </span></p>
<p><span>2.1. Moving Stuff around the World </span></p>
<p><span>Shipping Containers and Global Logistics </span></p>
<p><span>Containers and Economic Globalization </span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion </span></p>
<p><span>2.2. National Waterways </span></p>
<p><span>Building Waterways </span></p>
<p><span>Using the Waterways </span></p>
<p><span>Reusing the Waterways </span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion </span></p>
<p><span>2.3. Shipping and Spin-Offs </span></p>
<p><span>Breaking the Bulk </span></p>
<p><span>Shipping Containers and a New Kind of Bulk </span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion </span></p>
<p><span>2.4. Where Water and Land Meet: The Anyport Model </span></p>
<p><span>Stage One: Primitive or Medieval Ports </span></p>
<p><span>Stage Two: Expanding Cityport </span></p>
<p><span>Stage Three: Modern Industrial </span></p>
<p><span>Stage Four: Specialization </span></p>
<p><span>Stage Five: Redevelopment </span></p>
<p><span>Anyport beyond the Coastline </span></p>
<p><span>Beyond the Individual Cityport </span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion </span></p>
<p><span>2.5. Working on the Water </span></p>
<p><span>Longshoremen </span></p>
<p><span>Polynesian Navigation </span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion </span></p>
<p><span>3 </span><span>Flying Around: Aviation, Airports, and Airlines </span></p>
<p><span>3.1. Flying around the World </span></p>
<p><span>Geographies of Air Travel </span></p>
<p><span>Power Relations </span></p>
<p><span>Aeromobility </span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion </span></p>
<p><span>3.2. National Governments and Aviation </span></p>
<p><span>Aviation and National Identity </span></p>
<p><span>Regulating Aviation </span></p>
<p><span>Deregulating Aviation </span></p>
<p><span>From Deregulation to Privatization </span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion </span></p>
<p><span>3.3. Aviation and Metropolitan Regions </span></p>
<p><span>Airports and Regional Economic Development </span></p>
<p><span>The Southwest Effect </span></p>
<p><span>Low-Cost Carriers </span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion </span></p>
<p><span>3.4. Airports on the Local Scale </span></p>
<p><span>Airport-City Relationships </span></p>
<p><span>The Aerotropolis Concept </span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion </span></p>
<p><span>3.5. Aviation and the Individual </span></p>
<p><span>Airport Security and Surveillance </span></p>
<p><span>Airport Noise and Emissions </span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion </span></p>
<p><span>4 </span><span>Riding the Rails: Railroads, Trains, and Trails </span></p>
<p><span>4.1. Railways as International, Not Global </span></p>
<p><span>Background on the Belt and Road Initiative </span></p>
<p><span>The Silk Railroad? </span></p>
<p><span>The Globalization of Chinese Railroads </span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion </span></p>
<p><span>4.2. Railroads as Empire-Builders </span></p>
<p><span>Extracting Resources with Railroads </span></p>
<p><span>The US Midwest </span></p>
<p><span>Colonies as Resource Extraction </span></p>
<p><span>Establishing Power from a Distance </span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion </span></p>
<p><span>4.3. Creating New Regions through Fixed Links </span></p>
<p><span>The Channel Tunnel </span></p>
<p><span>The Øresund Fixed Link </span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion </span></p>
<p><span>4.4. Railroads on the Local Scale </span></p>
<p><span>Railroad Deregulation </span></p>
<p><span>Redeveloping the Rails </span></p>
<p><span>Rails to Trails </span></p>
<p><span>Railyards to Yards </span></p>
<p><span>High-Speed Rail and Local Development </span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion </span></p>
<p><span>4.5. The Body and Trains </span></p>
<p><span>The Need for Speed </span></p>
<p><span>Sharing Space </span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion </span></p>
<p><span>5 </span><span>Automobility: Cars, Roads, and Streets </span></p>
<p><span>5.1. Automobility </span></p>
<p><span>Automobility as an Industry </span></p>
<p><span>Cars as Objects of Consumption </span></p>
<p><span>Automobility and Individual Mobility </span></p>
<p><span>Automobility as the Dominant Culture </span></p>
<p><span>Automobility and Natural Resource Use </span></p>
<p><span>Automobility as a “Machinic Complex” </span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion </span></p>
<p><span>5.2. National Highway Networks </span></p>
<p><span>Premodern Roads </span></p>
<p><span>Building a National Highway System </span></p>
<p><span>The Effects of the US Interstate Highway System </span></p>
<p><span>The Golden Quadrilateral </span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion </span></p>
<p><span>5.3. Roads and the Regional Environment </span></p>
<p><span>Regional Air Pollution </span></p>
<p><span>Lead Emissions </span></p>
<p><span>Particulate Matter </span></p>
<p><span>Nitrogen Dioxide </span></p>
<p><span>Ozone Production </span></p>
<p><span>Evacuations </span></p>
<p><span>Severing Regional Links </span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion </span></p>
<p><span>5.4. Local Roads </span></p>
<p><span>The UTMS </span></p>
<p><span>Trip Generation </span></p>
<p><span>Trip Distribution </span></p>
<p><span>Modal Split </span></p>
<p><span>Trip Assignment </span></p>
<p><span>Modeling Urban Transportation </span></p>
<p><span>Local Streets and Privatization </span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion </span></p>
<p><span>5.5. Roads on the Scale of the Body </span></p>
<p><span>Cycling Choices </span></p>
<p><span>Velomobility </span></p>
<p><span>Walking the Streets </span></p>
<p><span>Street Culture </span></p>
<p><span>Micromobilities </span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion </span></p>
<p><span>6 </span><span>Taking Transit: Metros, Light-Rail, and Transit-Oriented Development </span></p>
<p><span>6.1. Transit on the Global Scale </span></p>
<p><span>Bus Rapid Transit </span></p>
<p><span>Policy Mobilities </span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion </span></p>
<p><span>6.2. India’s Metros: National Transit? </span></p>
<p><span>Countering the Rise of the Automobile </span></p>
<p><span>“Message in a Metro” </span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion </span></p>
<p><span>6.3. Public Transit and Metropolitan Form </span></p>
<p><span>The Walking City (1800–1890) </span></p>
<p><span>The Streetcar Era (1890–1920) </span></p>
<p><span>The Recreational Auto Era (1920–1945) </span></p>
<p><span>The Freeway Era (1945–??) </span></p>
<p><span>A New Era? </span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion </span></p>
<p><span>6.4. Local Transit </span></p>
<p><span>Turning Back to Transit </span></p>
<p><span>Transit-Oriented Development </span></p>
<p><span>Transportation Gentrification </span></p>
<p><span>Informal Transport </span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion </span></p>
<p><span>6.5. Transit on the Scale of the Body </span></p>
<p><span>The Civil Rights Era </span></p>
<p><span>Mobility Justice </span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion </span></p>
<p><span>7 </span><span>Intermodalism </span></p>
<p><span>The Politics of Pipelines </span></p>
<p><span>Multimodalism and Intermodalism </span></p>
<p><span>Mobility as a Service (MaaS) </span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion </span></p>
<p><span>Index </span></p>
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<p><span>Julie Cidell is professor of geography and GIS at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.</span></p>

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<li><span>Organized mode-by-mode, with an alternate scale-by-scale table of contents</span></li>
<li><span>Discussion questions to reinforce key concepts and terms</span></li>
<li><span>Emphasis on real-world examples </span></li>
<li><span>Introduces embodied and lived experience into the study of transportation geography</span></li>
<li><span>Includes examples from over twenty different countries in nine world regions</span></li>
<li><span>Gives equal weight to all major modes of transport</span></li>
<li><span>Incorporates new research on mobilities and mobility justice </span></li>
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