About us

Our Mission

Our mission is to share and disseminate transport geography research at a global level in conjunction with a wide range of national transport geography research groups and other IGU Commissions.

The Commission’s research focuses on transport, mobilities and spatial change and relates to geographic theory with specific attention paid to the interrelationships between spaces and places and flows and infrastructures.

It involves the analysis of transport policies, processes and behaviours that influence the movement of people, goods and information. This research includes all modes of transport, at local, regional and global scales. Environmental, welfare and energy questions, and social, economic and governance dimensions are also investigated.  

We encourage a wide array of quantitative and qualitative approaches, support cooperation with other fields and disciplines and make a large scale and growing contribution to IGU and other transport geography meetings and conferences.

The dissemination of the Commission’s work includes publication of books, research journal papers and journal Special Issues.

Objectives

Build on the present objectives with an increased focus on contemporary transport geography issues relating to:

* climate change
* social equity
* spatial change and inequality
* new ICT and transport technology including
autonomous vehicles
* transport and land use.

Steering Committee

2024-2028

T&G Commission (C24.44)

Chair

Chia-Lin CHEN, University of Liverpool, UK 

Vice Chair

Pengjun ZHAO, Peking University, China

Secretary

Dong LIU, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR (new appointment at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen from January 2025)

Treasurer ex officio

Andrew GOETZ, University of Denver, Colorado, USA

Honorary members

Other members

Ernest AGYEMANG, University of Ghana, Ghana

Ela BABALIK, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

Julie CIDELL, University of Illinois, USA

Rafael H. M. PEREIRA, Institute for Applied Economic Research, Brazil

Dorina POJANI, The University of Queensland, Australia

Aisling REYNOLDS-FEIGHAN, University College Dublin, Ireland

Thomas THEVENIN,  University of Bourgogne, Franche Comte, France

Gordon WILMSMEIER, Los Andes University, Colombia

Steering Committee

2020-2024

T&G Commission (C.41)

Chair

Frederic Dobruszkes, Brussels Free University ULB, Belgium

Vice Chair

Pengjun Zhao, Peking University, China

Secretary

Chia-Lin Chen, University of Liverpool, UK 

Treasurer ex officio

Andrew Goetz, University of Denver, Colorado, USA

Honorary members

(Founder) Richard Knowles, University of Salford, Manchester, UK

Andrew Goetz, University of Denver, Colorado, USA

Other members

Julie Cidell, University of Illinois, USA

Claude Comtois, Universite de Montreal, Canada

Ana Condeco-Melhorado, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Aisling Reynolds-Feighan, University College Dublin, Ireland

Tim Ryley, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia

Koichi Tanaka, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan

Thomas Thevenin,  University of Bourgogne, Franche Comte, France

James Wang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

Steering Committee

2016-2020

T&G Commission (C16.36)

Chair

Richard Knowles, University of Salford, Manchester, UK & University of Huddersfield, UK

Vice Chair

Chia-Lin Chen, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou, China until September 2018, then at University of Liverpool in London

Secretary

Frederic Dobruszkes, Brussels Free University ULB, Belgium

Treasurer

Andrew Goetz, University of Denver, Colorado, USA

Other members:

Albert Abane, University of Cape Coast, Ghana

Claude Comtois, Universite de Montreal, Canada

Ana Condeco-Melhorado, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Moshe Givoni, University of Tel Aviv, Israel (2017-19)

Markus Hesse, Universite de Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Tim Ryley, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia

Antonio Nelson Rodrigues da Silva, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Koichi Tanaka, Ibaraki University, Japan

James Wang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

Steering Committee

2012-2016

T&G Commission (C12.38)

Chair

Richard Knowles, University of Salford, Manchester, UK

Vice Chair

Becky Loo, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Secretary

Yves Boquet, Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon, France

Treasurer

Andrew Goetz, University of Denver, Colorado, USA

Steering Committee

2009-2012

T&G Commission (C08.35)

Chair

Richard Knowles, University of Salford, Manchester, UK

Vice Chair

Becky Loo, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Secretary

Yves Boquet, Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon, France