The ''Journal of Transport Geography'' is a quarterly

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published by

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in association with the Transport Geography Research Group of the

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(with the

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). The journal was established in 1993 and covers all aspects of

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. The

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is Frank Witlox. The founding editor is Richard Knowles (

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Aims and scope

The journal focuses on transportation geography research, methodologies, and data; covering associated investigations within

government policies Public policy is an institutionalized proposal or a decided set of elements like laws, regulations, guidelines, and actions to solve or address relevant and real-world problems, guided by a conception and often implemented by programs. Public ...

infrastructure Infrastructure is the set of facilities and systems that serve a country, city, or other area, and encompasses the services and facilities necessary for its economy, households and firms to function. Infrastructure is composed of public and priv ...

, area development,

telecommunication Telecommunication is the transmission of information by various types of technologies over wire, radio, optical, or other electromagnetic systems. It has its origin in the desire of humans for communication over a distance greater than that fe ...

economic integration Economic integration is the unification of economic policies between different states, through the partial or full abolition of tariff and Non-tariff barriers to trade, non-tariff restrictions on trade. The trade-stimulation effects intended b ...

(global and regional),

environment Environment most often refers to: __NOTOC__ * Natural environment, all living and non-living things occurring naturally * Biophysical environment, the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism or ...

, energy resources, travel,

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geographical information systems A geographic information system (GIS) is a type of database containing geographic data (that is, descriptions of phenomena for which location is relevant), combined with software tools for managing, analyzing, and visualizing those data. In a b ...

, and spatial change.

Abstracting and indexing

This journal is abstracted and indexed by: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2016

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of 2.675.

References

External links

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Editor in the Spotlight – Richard Knowles
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