Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Mapping intellectual structures and dynamics of transport geography research: a scientometric overview from 1982 to 2014

  • Published:
Scientometrics Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

To date, less care has been taken to quantitatively visualize the intellectual evolution of transport geography research than to qualitatively review this field. Based on big-data literature from the Thomson Reuters Web of Science as well as scientometric mapping analysis, this important research topic is analyzed by techniques from informetric domains to detect its developmental landscape. After data reduction and clean-up, 4840 articles published from 1982 to 2014 are identified on which two network analyses are conducted: a bibliometric approach (i.e. co-occurrence and co-citation network) and a complex network approach utilizing C. Chen’s CiteSpaceII, O. Persson’s BibExcel and ESRI’s ArcGIS. Results illustrate the following: (1) periods including the rise (1960–1970s), to a stagnation period (1980–1990s), to a boom (since 1990); (2) that the change of research frontiers and hot issues is either social oriented or topic oriented; (3) that its development owes a good deal to cooperative subnetworks (schools) of six academic communities—Urban Planning, Marxist Geography, Mobility Turn, New Economic Geography, Port Geography, and Time Geography; and (4) that its research methods tend to be diversified and integrated, while its research perspective is inclined to be microcosmic and oriented to social hot issues. Finally, 23 documents are identified as playing the pivotal role in its knowledge evolution as an intellectual base.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5
Fig. 6
Fig. 7

References

  • Alonso, W. (1964). Location and land use: Toward a general theory of land rent. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Anselin, L. (1988). Spatial econometrics: Methods and models. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Springer.

    Book  MATH  Google Scholar 

  • Aschauer, D. (1989). Is public expenditure productive? Journal of Monetary Economics, 23(2), 177–200.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Attoh, K. (2014). Imagining a “cultural turn” in transportation geography. Journal of Cultural Geography, 31(2), 141–151.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Banister, D. (2008). The sustainable mobility paradigm. Transport Policy, 15(2), 73–80.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Batty, M. (2003). The geography of scientific citation. Environment and Planning A, 35(5), 761–765.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Birtchnell, T., & Urry, J. (2015). The mobilities and post-mobilities of cargo. Consumption, Markets and Culture, 18(1), 25–38.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Borenstein, S. (1992). The evolution of US airline competition. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 6(2), 45–73.

    Article  MathSciNet  Google Scholar 

  • Börner, K., Chen, C., & Boyack, K. W. (2003). Visualizing knowledge domains. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 37(1), 179–255.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bowen, J. T., & Leinbach, T. R. (1995). The state and liberalization: The airline industry in the East Asian NICs. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 85(3), 468–493.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Braam, R. R., Moed, H. F., & Van Raan, A. F. J. (1991a). Mapping of science by combined co-citation and word analysis. I: Structural aspects. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 42(4), 233–251.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Braam, R. R., Moed, H. F., & Van Raan, A. F. J. (1991b). Mapping of science by combined co-citation and word analysis. II: Dynamical aspects. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 42(4), 252–266.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Buliung, R. N., & Kanaroglou, P. S. (2006). A GIS toolkit for exploring geographies of household activity/travel behavior. Journal of Transport Geography, 14(1), 35–51.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Button, K., & Reggiani, A. (2011). Transportation and economic development challenges. Cheltenham and Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Cervero, R., & Kockelman, K. (1997). Travel demand and the 3Ds: Density, diversity, and design. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 2(3), 199–219.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chapman, L. (2007). Transport and climate change: A review. Journal of Transport Geography, 15(5), 354–367.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chen, C. (2004). Searching for intellectual turning points: Progressive knowledge domain visualization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101(suppl 1), 5303–5310.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chen, C. (2006). CiteSpace II: Detecting and visualizing emerging trends and transient patterns in scientific literature. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(3), 359–377.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chen, C., Dubin, R., & Kim, M. C. (2014). Emerging trends and new developments in regenerative medicine: A scientometric update (2000–2014). Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy, 14(9), 1295–1317.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chen, C., Hu, Z., Liu, S., & Tseng, H. (2012). Emerging trends in regenerative medicine: A scientometric analysis in CiteSpace. Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy, 12(5), 593–608.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chen, C., Ibekwe-SanJuan, F., & Hou, J. (2010). The structure and dynamics of cocitation clusters: A multiple-perspective cocitation analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(7), 1386–1409.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chen, C., & Paul, R. J. (2001). Visualizing a knowledge domain’s intellectual structure. Computer, 34(3), 65–71.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chen, C., Song, I. Y., Yuan, X., & Zhang, J. (2008). The thematic and citation landscape of data and knowledge engineering (1985–2007). Data and Knowledge Engineering, 67(2), 234–259.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Church, A., Frost, M., & Sullivan, K. (2000). Transport and social exclusion in London. Transport Policy, 7(3), 195–205.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Cobo, M. J., López-Herrera, A. G., Herrera-Viedma, E., & Herrera, F. (2011). Science mapping software tools: Review, analysis, and cooperative study among tools. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62(7), 1382–1402.

    Article  MATH  Google Scholar 

  • Cresswell, T. (2006). On the move: Mobility in the modern western world. New York and London: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cresswell, T. (2010). Towards a politics of mobility. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 28(1), 17–31.

    Article  MathSciNet  Google Scholar 

  • Cresswell, T. (2011). Mobilities I: Catching up. Progress in Human Geography, 35(4), 550–558.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Cresswell, T. (2012). Mobilities II: Still. Progress in Human Geography, 36(5), 645–653.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Cresswell, T. (2014). Mobilities III: Moving on. Progress in Human Geography, 38(5), 712–721.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Curl, A., & Davison, L. (2014). Transport geography: Perspectives upon entering an accomplished research sub-discipline. Journal of Transport Geography, 38, 100–105.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ducruet, C., & Lugo, I. (2013). Structure and dynamics of transport networks: Concepts, models, and applications. In J. P. Rodrigue, T. E. Notteboom, & J. Shaw (Eds.), The sage handbook of transport studies (pp. 347–364). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications Ltd.

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Erath, A., Löchl, M., & Axhausen, K. W. (2009). Graph-theoretical analysis of the Swiss road and railway networks over time. Networks and Spatial Economics, 9(3), 379–400.

    Article  MathSciNet  MATH  Google Scholar 

  • Fang, Y. (2015). Visualizing the structure and the evolving of digital medicine: A scientometrics review. Scientometrics, 105(1), 5–21.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Feng, F., Zhang, L., Du, Y., & Wang, W. (2015). Visualization and quantitative study in bibliographic databases: A case in the field of university-industry cooperation. Journal of Informetrics, 9(1), 118–134.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Forrest, R., & Murie, A. (1995). From privatization to commodification: Tenure conversion and new zones of transition in the city. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 19(3), 407–422.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Fujita, M., & Krugman, P. (2004). The new economic geography: Past, present and the future. Papers in Regional Science, 83(1), 139–164.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Fujita, M., Krugman, P., & Venables, A. J. (1999). The spatial economy: Cities, regions, and international trade. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

    MATH  Google Scholar 

  • Fuller, A. T., & Pincetl, S. (2014). Vulnerability studies: A bibliometric review.  The Professional Geographer, 67(3), 1–11.

    Google Scholar 

  • Geurs, K. T., & van Wee, B. (2004). Accessibility evaluation of land-use and transport strategies: Review and research directions. Journal of Transport Geography, 12(2), 127–140.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gibb, R., Lowndes, T., & Charlton, C. (1996). The privatization of British rail. Applied Geography, 16(1), 35–51.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Goetz, A. R. (2006). Transport geography: Reflecting on a subdiscipline and identifying future research trajectories: The insularity issue in transport geography. Journal of Transport Geography, 14(3), 230–231.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Goetz, A. R. (2013). The place of transport in geography: Hoyle lecture 2013 in transport geography. In 2013 RGS-IBG annual international conference. London, August 29, 2013.

  • Goetz, A. R., & Sutton, C. J. (1997). The geography of deregulation in the U.S. airline industry. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 87(2), 238–263.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Goetz, A. R., Vowles, T. M., & Tierney, S. (2009). Bridging the qualitative–quantitative divide in transport geography. The Professional Geographer, 61(3), 323–335.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gorman, S. P., Patuelli, R., Reggiani, A., Nijkamp, P., Kulkarni, R., & Haag, G. (2007). An application of complex network theory to German commuting patterns. In T. L. Friesz (Ed.), Network science, nonlinear science and infrastructure systems (pp. 167–185). New York: Springer.

    Google Scholar 

  • Graham, S., & Marvin, S. (2001). Splintering urbanism: Networked infrastructures, technological mobilities and the urban condition. London and New York: Routledge.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Grubesic, T. H., Matisziw, T. C., & Zook, M. A. (2008). Global airline networks and nodal regions. GeoJournal, 71(1), 53–66.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hall, D. (2010). Transport geography and new European realities: A critique. Journal of Transport Geography, 18(1), 1–13.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Handy, S. (1996). Methodologies for exploring the link between urban form and travel behavior. Transportation Research D: Transport and Environment, 1(2), 151–165.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hansen, W. (1959). How accessibility shapes land use. Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 25(2), 73–76.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hanson, S. (2003). Transportation: Hooked on speed, eyeing sustainability. In E. Sheppard & T. Barnes (Eds.), A companion to economic geography (pp. 468–483). Malden: Blackwell.

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Hanson, S. (2006). Imagine. Journal of Transport Geography, 14(3), 232–233.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • He, Q. (1999). Knowledge discovery through co-word analysis. Library trends, 48(1), 133–159.

    Google Scholar 

  • He, C. F., Guo, Q., Ma, Y., Fan, S., & Zhao, Y. (2014). Progress of economic geography in the West: A literature review. Acta Geographica Sinica, 69(8), 1207–1223. (in Chinese).

    Google Scholar 

  • Hodge, D. C. (1992). Urban congestion: Reshaping urban life. Urban Geography, 13(6), 577–588.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Holloway, S. R. (1998). The role of residential location in conditioning the effect of metropolitan economic structure on male youth employment. The Professional Geographer, 50(1), 31–45.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Horner, M. W., & Casas, I. (2006). Viewpoints from the 2006 association of American geographers annual meeting panel sessions: Assessment of research needs in transport geography. Journal of Transport Geography, 14(3), 228–229.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hoyle, B. S., & Knowles, R. D. (1999). Modern transport geography (2nd ed.). London: Belhaven Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hu, C. P., Hu, J. M., Gao, Y., & Zhang, Y. K. (2011). A journal co-citation analysis of library and information science in China. Scientometrics, 86(3), 657–670.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hu, Y., & Wang, F. (2015). Decomposing excess commuting: A Monte Carlo simulation approach. Journal of Transport Geography, 44, 43–52.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ivan, I., Benensonx, I., Jiang, B., Horák, J., Haworth, J., & Inspektor, T. (Eds.). (2015). Geoinformatics for intelligent transportation (p. XIX). Gewerbestrasse: Springer International Publishing.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jacobs, J. (1961). The death and life of great American cities. New York: Random House Inc.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jones, P. (2012).Transport geography: 40.40 vision: Research in transport geography: The next 40 years. In RGS-IBG annual international conference, Edinburgh, July, 2012.

  • Keeling, D. J. (2007). Transportation geography: New directions on well-worn trails. Progress in Human Geography, 31(2), 217–225.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Keeling, D. J. (2008). Transportation geography-new regional mobilities. Progress in Human Geography, 32(2), 275–283.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Keeling, D. J. (2009). Transportation geography: Local challenges, global contexts. Progress in Human Geography, 33(4), 516–526.

    Article  MathSciNet  Google Scholar 

  • Kessler, M. M. (1963). Bibliographic coupling between scientific papers. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 14(1), 10–25.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kim, H. M., & Kwan, M. P. (2003). Space–time accessibility measures: A geocomputational algorithm with a focus on the feasible opportunity set and possible activity duration. Journal of Geographical Systems, 5(1), 71–91.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Knowles, R. D. (1993). Research agendas in transport geography for the 1990s. Journal of Transport Geography, 1(1), 3–11.

    Article  MathSciNet  Google Scholar 

  • Knowles, R. D., Shaw, J., & Docherty, I. (Eds.). (2008). Transport geographies: Mobilities, flows and spaces. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

    Google Scholar 

  • Krugman, P. (1991). Increasing returns and economic geography. The Journal of Political Economy, 99(3), 483–499.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kwan, M. P. (1998). Space–time and integral measures of individual accessibility: A comparative analysis using a point-based framework. Geographical Analysis, 30(3), 191–216.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kwan, M. P. (1999). Gender and individual access to urban opportunities: A study using space–time measures. The Professional Geographer, 51(2), 210–227.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kwan, M. P. (2000). Interactive geovisualization of activity-travel patterns using three-dimensional geographical information systems: A methodological exploration with a large data set. Transportation Research C: Emerging Technologies, 8(1), 185–203.

    Article  MathSciNet  Google Scholar 

  • Kwan, M. P., & Schwanen, T. (1999). Quantitative revolution 2: The critical (re)turn. The Professional Geographer, 61(3), 283–291.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Law, R. (1999). Beyond ‘women and transport’: Towards new geographies of gender and daily mobility. Progress in Human Geography, 23(4), 567–588.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lee, P. C., & Su, H. N. (2010). Investigating the structure of regional innovation system research through keyword co-occurrence and social network analysis. Innovation: Management Policy and Practice, 12(1), 26–40.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lefebvre, H. (1991). The production of space. (Donald Nicholson-Smith, Trans.). Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

  • Lenntorp, B. (1999). Time-geography-at the end of its beginning. GeoJournal, 48(3), 155–158.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • LeSage, J., & Pace, R. K. (2009). Introduction to spatial econometrics. Boca Raton: CRC Press.

    Book  MATH  Google Scholar 

  • Leydesdorff, L., & Persson, O. (2010). Mapping the geography of science: Distribution patterns and networks of relations among cities and institutes. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(8), 1622–1634.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lieu, S., & Treyz, G. I. (1992). Estimating the economic and demographic effects of an air quality management plan: The case of Southern California. Environment and Planning A, 24(12), 1799–1811.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lin, J., & Bai, Y. (2013). Complex network topology of transportation systems. Transport Reviews, 33(6), 658–685.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Linneker, B., & Spence, N. (1996). Road transport infrastructure and regional economic development: The regional development effects of the M25 London orbital motorway. Journal of Transport Geography, 4(2), 77–92.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Liu, G. (2013). Visualization of patents and papers in terahertz technology: A comparative study. Scientometrics, 94(3), 1037–1056.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Liu, G., Sun, H., & Song, X. (2014). Visualizing and mapping the research on patents in information science and management science. Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science, 19(1), 87–103.

    Google Scholar 

  • Liu, Z., Yin, Y., Liu, W., & Dunford, M. (2015). Visualizing the intellectual structure and evolution of innovation systems research: A bibliometric analysis. Scientometrics, 103(1), 135–158.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lumsdon, L. (2000). Transport and tourism: Cycle tourism: A model for sustainable development? Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 8(5), 361–377.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • McDonald, N. C. (2008). Household interactions and children’s school travel: The effect of parental work patterns on walking and biking to school. Journal of Transport Geography, 16(5), 324–331.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Merriman, P. (2015a). Mobilities I: Departures. Progress in Human Geography, 39(1), 87–95.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Merriman, P. (2015b). Mobilities II: Cruising. Progress in Human Geography, 0309132515585654.

  • Miller, H. J. (1991). Modelling accessibility using space–time prism concepts within geographical information systems. International Journal of Geographical Information System, 5(3), 287–301.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Miller, H. J., & Shaw, S. L. (2001). Geographic information systems for transportation: Principals and applications. New York: Oxford University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Newman, P. W. G. (1999). Sustainability and cities: Extending the metabolism model. Landscape and Urban Planning, 44(4), 219–226.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ng, A. K. Y. (2013). The evolution and research trends of port geography. The Professional Geographer, 65(1), 65–86.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ng, A. K. Y., & Ducruet, C. (2014). The changing tides of port geography (1950–2012). Progress in Human Geography, 38(6), 785–823.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Notteboom, T. E., & Rodrigue, J. P. (2005). Port regionalization: Towards a new phase in port development. Maritime Policy and Management, 32(3), 297–313.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Oliveira, J. N., & Hanson, S. (1998). Off the road? Reflections on transportation geography in the information age. Journal of Transport Geography, 6(4), 241–249.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ortega, J. L. (2014). Influence of co-authorship networks in the research impact: Ego network analyses from Microsoft Academic Search. Journal of Informetrics, 8(3), 728–737.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Owens, S. (1995). From ‘predict and provide’ to ‘predict and prevent’? Pricing and planning in transport policy. Transport Policy, 2(1), 43–49.

    Article  MathSciNet  Google Scholar 

  • Pangbourne, K., Lucas, K., & Curl, A. (2015). Transport geography research group at the 2014 RGS-IBG conference. Journal of Transport Geography, 42, 191–192.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Preston, J., & Rajé, F. (2007). Accessibility, mobility and transport-related social exclusion. Journal of Transport Geography, 15(3), 151–160.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Price, D. D. (1965). Networks of scientific papers. Science, 149, 510–515.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Qian, G. (2014). Scientometric sorting by importance for literatures on life cycle assessments and some related methodological discussions. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 19(7), 1462–1467.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rimmer, P. J. (1988). Transport geography. Progress in Human Geography, 12(2), 270–281.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rodrigue, J. P., Comtois, C., & Slack, B. (2013). The geography of transport systems (4th ed.). New York: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Røe, P. G. (2000). Qualitative research on intra-urban travel: An alternative approach. Journal of Transport Geography, 8(2), 99–106.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Schwanen, T. (2016). Geographies of transport I: Reinventing a field? Progress in Human Geography, 40(1), 126–137.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Shao, H., Yu, Q., Bo, X., & Duan, Z. (2013). Analysis of oncology research from 2001 to 2010: A scientometric perspective. Oncology Reports, 29(4), 1441–1452.

    Google Scholar 

  • Shaw, J., & Hesse, M. (2010). Transport, geography and the ‘new’ mobilities. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 35(3), 305–312.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Shaw, J., & Sidaway, J. D. (2011). Making links: On (re) engaging with transport and transport geography. Progress in Human Geography, 35(4), 502–520.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sheller, M., & Urry, J. (2006). The new mobilities paradigm. Environment and Planning A, 38(2), 207–226.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Shukla, V., & Parikh, K. (1992). The environmental consequences of urban growth: Cross-national perspectives on economic development, air pollution, and city size. Urban Geography, 13(5), 422–449.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sibley, D. (1995). Geographies of exclusion: Society and difference in the west. London and New York: Routledge.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Slack, B. (1993). Pawns in the game: Ports in a global transportation system. Growth and Change, 24(4), 579–588.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Small, H. (1973). Co-citation in the scientific literature: A new measure of the relationship between two documents. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 24(4), 265–269.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Small, H., Boyack, K. W., & Klavans, R. (2014). Identifying emerging topics in science and technology. Research Policy, 43(8), 1450–1467.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Small, H., & Garfield, E. (1985). The geography of science: Disciplinary and national mappings. Journal of Information Science, 11(4), 147–159.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Smith, N. (1996). The new urban frontier: Gentrification and the revanchist city. London: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Taaffe, E. J., & Gauthier, H. L. (1994). Transportation geography and geographic thought in the United States: An overview. Journal of Transport Geography, 2(3), 155–168.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Taaffe, E. J., Gauthier, H. L., & O’Kelly, M. E. (1996). Geography of transportation (2nd ed.). New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tavasszy, L., Minderhoud, M., Perrin, J.-F., & Notteboom, T. E. (2011). A strategic network choice model for global container flows: Specification, estimation and application. Journal of Transport Geography, 19(6), 1163–1172.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Trombulak, S. C., & Frissell, C. A. (2000). Review of ecological effects of roads on terrestrial and aquatic communities. Conservation Biology, 14(1), 18–30.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Urry, J. (2007). Mobilities. Cambridge and Malden: Polity Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Vickerman, R. (1997). High-speed rail in Europe: Experience and issues for future development. Annals of Regional Science, 31(1), 21–38.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Vowles, T. M. (2006). Is the study of transport repositioning transport geographers away from geography? Journal of Transport Geography, 14(3), 241–242.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Walton, J. (2006). Transport, travel, tourism and mobility: A cultural turn? The Journal of Transport History, 27(2), 129–134.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wang, F., Antipova, A., & Porta, S. (2011). Street centrality and land use intensity in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Journal of Transport Geography, 19(2), 285–293.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wang, J., Jin, F., Mo, H., & Wang, F. (2009). Spatiotemporal evolution of China railway network in the 20th century: An accessibility approach. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 43(8), 765–778.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wei, F., Grubesic, T. H., & Bishop, B. W. (2015). Exploring the GIS knowledge domain using CiteSpace. The Professional Geographer, 67(3), 1–11.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wyly, E. K. (1998). Containment and mismatch: Gender differences in commuting in metropolitan labor markets. Urban Geography, 19(5), 395–430.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Xie, P. (2015). Study of international anticancer research trends via co-word and document co-citation visualization analysis. Scientometrics, 105(1), 611–622.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Yang, H. (1996). A spatial price equilibrium model with congestion effects. The Annals of Regional Science, 30(4), 359–371.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Yu, D. (2015). A scientometrics review on aggregation operator research. Scientometrics, 105(1), 115–133.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zhang, X., Gao, Y., Yan, X., de Pablos, P. O., Sun, Y., & Cao, X. (2015). From e-learning to social-learning: Mapping development of studies on social media-supported knowledge management. Computers in Human Behavior, 51, 803–811.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zhang, H., & Li, Z. (2012). Fractality and self-similarity in the structure of road networks. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 102(2), 350–365.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zhou, X., & Zhao, G. (2015). Global liposome research in the period of 1995–2014: A bibliometric analysis. Scientometrics, 105(1), 231–248.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. School of Urban and Regional Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062, China

    Chengliang Liu & Qinchang Gui

Authors
  1. Chengliang Liu
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Qinchang Gui
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Chengliang Liu.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Liu, C., Gui, Q. Mapping intellectual structures and dynamics of transport geography research: a scientometric overview from 1982 to 2014. Scientometrics 109, 159–184 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-016-2045-8

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-016-2045-8

Keywords

Search

Navigation