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This third report in the series reviews recent research on the geographies of transport in Africa, Asia and Latin America to reflect on the spatialities of knowledge production and the question as to whether a post/decolonial turn is occurring in geographical scholarship on transport. A simple and heuristic classification scheme is developed and deployed to demonstrate that predominantly western worldviews, theories, concepts, methods and research practices continue to prevail in geographical scholarship on transport in the Global South. It is also shown that this hegemony is being reworked and resisted in various ways, and the report concludes with suggestions about how geographical scholarship on transport can be worlded and ultimately decolonized further. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper propounds a practised understanding of transport provision. While transport geography tends to focus on the effects of planning, mobilities studies view transport provision as framing backdrops of mobile lives. Neither has fully addressed how transport provision is a derivative of mundane practices that contingently lay transport’s structural foundations. This paper argues that delineating these practices imputes a much-needed ‘livingness’ to transport’s formal production and allows for more congruous conversations between transport provision and use. Through a three-part examination, I foreground what potentially goes on during transport’s planning and operations, and highlight the contingencies of these less-than-unitary processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent reviews have suggested a vibrancy and diversity in transport geography. But these articles were the first progress reports on transport geography since 1988, indicating how the field has been relatively marginal to broader disciplinary debates. Meanwhile, a lively literature on mobilities has developed. In these contexts and as a supplement to the recent progress reports, a review of otherwise largely distinct fields reminds us how transport as a critical component of inquiry in geography is frequently taken for granted. We invite a re-engagement with transport and transport geography that opens fresh tracks for human geography. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This first report on mobilities outlines some aspects of research on mobilities that differentiates it from and connects it to earlier, ongoing geographies of movement such as transport geography. In the context of a world on the move it seeks to bring us up to date with the mobilities turn and make a case for mobility research as a project which focuses on the universal but always particularly constructed fact of moving. Mobilities research is compared to and differentiated from work in transport geography, arguing that mobilities research takes a more holistic view that allows it to make some previously unlikely connections. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on the shift of humans from rural spaces to urban places. It keys out local challenges that occur because of the growth of urban centers, one of which involves the local's rethinking within the global context. The author stresses that urban center development has incited the geographers of transportation to aid in explaining the accessibility and mobility's changing dynamics.

The article discusses the advances in transport geography at the global scale with an emphasis on research that explicates transport's role in structuring the global system and making global-local interactions possible. It explores the role of the region between global systems and local communities which seen through the analytical lens of transportation geographers. A research that addresses the role of transportation in local experiments is also presented. It highlights the impact of the European Union (EU), the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA), the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), and the Southern Cone Common Market (MERCOSUR) on social and economic changes.

Geographic perspectives on civil aviation have traditionally been situated within the conceptual landscapes and languages of a transport geography in which quantitative methodologies have been to the fore. While such perspectives have shed light on the increasingly complex morphology of global air routes, this article argues such approaches tend to downplay crucial questions concerning the social production and consumption of airspace. Drawing on ideas from the newly-emergent 'mobilities' paradigm, we use this article to flag up some alternative geographies of air travel, arguing that socially- and culturally-inflected perspectives can usefully reveal the iniquitous imprints of global air travel at a variety of spatial scales. We hence conclude that there is much to be gained by adopting such perspectives, and argue that work on the social dimensions of air travel is vital in a discipline where air transport is routinely described as an enabler of globalization, yet is often treated as an abstract, and oddly disembodied, space of flows. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]