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
2020-2024
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
2020-2024
T&G Commission
Chair
Dr. Frederic Dobruszkes, Brussels Free University ULB, Belgium
Secretary
Dr. Chia-Lin Chen, University of Liverpool, UK chia-lin.chen@liverpool.ac.uk
Vice Chair
Professor Pengjun Zhao, Peking University, China pengjun.zhao@pku.edu.cn
Treasurer ex officio
Professor Andrew Goetz, University of Denver, Colorado, USA
Other members
Professor Julie Cidell, University of Illinois, USA
Professor Claude Comtois, Universite de Montreal, Canada
Dr Ana Condeco-Melhorado, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Professor Aisling Reynolds-Feighan, University College Dublin, Ireland
Professor Tim Ryley, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia
Professor Koichi Tanaka, Ibaraki University, Japan
Professor Thomas Thevenin, University of Bourgogne, Franche Comte, France
Dr. James Wang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Steering Committee
2016-2020
T&G Commission (C16.36)
Chair
Professor Richard Knowles, University of Salford, Manchester, UK & University of Huddersfield, UK
Secretary
Dr. Frederic Dobruszkes, Brussels Free University ULB, Belgium
Vice Chair
Dr. Chia-Lin Chen, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou, China until September 2018, then at University of Liverpool in London
Treasurer
Professor Andrew Goetz, University of Denver, Colorado, USA
Other members:
Professor Albert Abane, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
Professor Claude Comtois, Universite de Montreal, Canada
Dr. Ana Condeco-Melhorado, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Professor Moshe Givoni, University of Tel Aviv, Israel (2017-19)
Professor Markus Hesse, Universite de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Professor Tim Ryley, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia
Dr. Antonio Nelson Rodrigues da Silva, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Professor Koichi Tanaka, Ibaraki University, Japan
Dr. James Wang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Steering Committee
2012-2016
T&G Commission (C12.38)
Chair
Professor Richard Knowles, University of Salford, Manchester, UK
Secretary
Professor Yves Boquet, Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Vice Chair
Professor Becky Loo, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Treasurer
Professor Andrew Goetz, University of Denver, Colorado, USA
Steering Committee
2009-2012
T&G Commission (C08.35)
Chair
Professor Richard Knowles, University of Salford, Manchester, UK
Secretary
Professor Yves Boquet, Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Vice Chair
Professor Becky Loo, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Transport and Geography Commission 