Networks

Networks

Research networks

• AK Verkehr (German Transport Geography Research Group)
• Association of American Geographers (AAG)
• Association of American Geography Specialty Group- Transportation Geography
• Association of Geographical Societies in Europe (EUGEO)
• Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies (HKSTS)
• International Geographical Union(IGU)
• IGU-Urban Geography Commission
• Network of European Communications & Transport Activities Research (NECTAR)
• Royal Geographical Society- Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG)
• RGS-Transport Geography Research Group (RGS-TGRG)

Academic journals & book series

• The “Journal of Transport Geography” – 10 Commission members on its Editorial Board, including two Associate Editors whilst the Commission’s founding Chair was Founding Editor from 1993-2012.
• The Elsevier research journal “Travel Behaviour and Society“
• Edward Elgar publisher’s ‘Transport, Mobilities and Spatial Change’ book series from 2015 (in association with TGRG) where the Commission’s Chair and Steering Committee member Markus Hesse are the series Co-Editors

Network activities

2025

EUGEO

Three themed sessions were organised within the 2025 EUGEO International Conference.

115 (I)(II): The changing and contrasting geographies of railways in Europe (I)(II)
116: Quantitative approaches for disabled mobility studies: Rationale, issues, pitfalls and results
117 (I)(II):: Transborder and Cross-border Transportation: Connectivity, Accessibility, and Mobility (I)(II)

2023

EUGEO

Three themed sessions were organised within the 2023 EUGEO International Conference.

Special Sessions organised under the Commission.

1180: Rethinking regional mobility: Modal interactions, social and territorial inequalities

1145: Transport, tourism and climate change: The tyranny of distance travelled (Joint sessions with the Tourism Commission)

1205: Lowering and abolishing fares: a step towards mobility of the future?

2021

RGS-TGRG

One themed session on ‘New Directions in Aviation, Distance and the Environment’ was organised by Xavier Fageda (Spain) and Frédéric Dobruszkes (Belgium) within the 2021 RGS-IBG Annual International Conference. The session was also sponsored by the UK Transport Geography Research Group.

This session took place online (gathered eight papers).

2019

Three meetings of the IGU Commission on Transport and Geography were held during 2019 with, respectively, the American Association of Geographers Transportation Geography Specialty Group (AAG-TGSG), Network on European Communications and Transport Activities Research (NECTAR) and the Royal Geographical Society Transport Geography Research Group (RGS-TGRG).

AAG-TGSG – Washington DC, USA: April 2019 – A session on “Cities and Networks”

NECTAR – University of Helsinki, Finland:  5^th-7^th June 2019. The IGU Transport and Geography Commission convened a session on Mega Events and Transport and on Geopolitical Changes and Transport. This included presentations on effects of the 2014 Rio de Janeiro Olympics on host city airline networks, of impacts on urban and regional mobility patterns of 2012 UEFA EURO football championships in Gdansk, Poland and on effects of re-imposing border controls, because of the Eueopean migration crisis, on trans-Øresund commuting between Sweden and Denmark.

RGS-TGRG – RGS Headquarters and Imperial College, London: 28^th-30^th August 2019 Sessions on “Air Transport in the Global South”.

2017

American Association of Geographers Conference in Boston in April: Professor Andrew Goetz (Denver University, USA) and Dr Fred Dobruszkes (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) convened three sessions on The relationships between airport driven impacts and urban areas’ social-spatial patterns, and one session was convened on Geographies of Disruption, both co-sponsored by the AAG Transportation Geography Specialty Group.

Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Conference in London 1^st September: Professor Richard Knowles (Universities of Salford and Huddersfield, UK) and Dr Fiona Ferbrache (University of Oxford, UK) convened 3 sessions on Transport, Sustainable Cities and Transit Oriented Development, co-sponsored by the RGS Transport Geography Research Group.

EUGEO  (Association of Geographical Societies in Europe) Conference in Brussels in September: Dr Fred Dobruszkes and  Haoran Yang (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) convened 1 session on The impact of free trade on transportation flows and the environment.