AAG Transportation Geography Specialty Group
The mission of the Transportation Geography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers is to encourage and facilitate interactions among individuals who are interested in research, practice, and education of transportation-related topics.
All members of the AAG with an interest in transportation and transportation-related issues are encouraged to join the Transportation Geography Specialty Group. Annual dues are $10 for regular members ($2 for student members) in addition to the normal AAG dues. Information and forms are available on the AAG home page and the AAG Knowledge Community.
TGSG at AAG 2025
Proposed By-Laws Changes
The TGSG board is proposing changes to the TGSG by-laws. Current TGSG members will receive e-mail instructions on how to vote on these changes.
You may view the proposed changes in this document.
- New language for online nomination and voting procedures
- Formalizing specific board member duties
- Modifications to awards policies, criteria, and amounts
2025 TGSG Award Winners
- Edward L. Ullman Award: Joe Weber, University of Alabama. Joe Weber received his Ph.D. in Geography from Ohio State University in 2001 under Mei-Po Kwan and has B.A and M.A. degrees in Geography from the University of Arizona. He is Professor of Geography at the University of Alabama. He has made significant contributions to transportation geography in both theoretical and applied domains. In addition to authoring/editing four books, he has published more than 60 journal articles and book chapters along with many research reports and book reviews, and he served as a board member and chair of the Transport Geography Specialty Group. He was one of the pioneers of the field of network-based space-time accessibility in the late and has worked extensively with the concept of accessibility with both aggregate and disaggregate methods and data. He is one of few transport geographers who has examined the American highway system from a variety of perspectives, including changing accessibility, route change, their cultural geography, and as historic places or even archaeological sites. Finally, he has made important contributions to the history of the field of transport geography. He has reviewed the development of accessibility measures, their varied approaches, and patterns and examined their mathematical properties. He examined the varied uses of the Ideal-Typical Sequence model of transport development, one of the field's first attempts at spatial models, and attempted to validate James Vance's concepts of economic and non-economic routes using least cost path modeling.
- Ph.D. Dissertation Award: Rongxiang Su, University of California, Santa Barbara. "Sensing Human Activity and Interaction Patterns through Movement Observations" (supervised by Konstadinos Goulias and Somayeh Dodge)
- Masters Thesis Award: Reyhane Javanmard, University of Western Ontario. "Towards a More Realistic Evaluation of New Public Transit Services' Impacts on Healthcare Accessibility and Inequality" (supervised by Jinhyung Lee)
- Student Travel Awards: Fabiha Rahman, Virginia Tech, and Bahareh Farrokhi, University of Nevada, Reno
Sessions
TGSG sponsored or co-sponsored 20 in-person, five hybrid, and one virtual sessions at AAG 2025 Detroit. All times are in Eastern Daylight Time.
- Monday, March 24, 2025
- 8:30 am: Impacts of E-commerce
- 8:30 am: Transportation Justice 1: Theory, politics and democratic planning
- 10:10 am: Transportation Justice 2: Theory and planning strategies
- 10:10 am: Transportation Geography Reserach: The good and bad of mobility
- 12:50 pm: Transportation Justice 3: Measuring inequitable accessibility
- 2:30 pm: Transportation Justice 4: Dimensions of inequitable accessibility
- 4:10 pm: Transportation and Environmental Exposure
- 4:10 pm (hybrid): Emerging Vehicle Technologies and Services: Geographies of Diffusion
- 4:10 pm: Transportation Justice Community Panel: Perspectives on driving change in Detroit
- 4:10 pm: Transportation Justice 5: Emerging mobility and accessibility measurement methods
- Tuesday, March 25, 2025
- 8:30 am: Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Micromobility Matters: Geospatial, health, and equity perspectives in the age of smart transport
- 8:30 am (hybrid): Transportation Justice 6: Exclusion and spatial isolation
- 10:10 am (hybrid): Transportation Justice 7: Cycling as a mode and social practice
- 12:50 am: Transportation Justice 8: Gendered perspectives
- 2:30 pm: Transportation Justice 9: Gendered perspectives
- 4:10 pm: Transportation Justice 10: Motorized subsidies, financialization, and affordability
- Wednesday, March 26, 2025
- 10:10 am: Transportation and Mobility
- 12:50 pm: Recent Advances in Computational Movement Analysis, Session 2
- 12:50 pm: Transportation Justice 11: Electrifying mobility
- 2:30 pm (hybrid): Accessibility and Mobility for Persons with Disability
- 2:30 pm: Transportation Justice 12: Railways, their neighbours, planners, and crew
- Thursday, March 27, 2025
- 10:10 am: Geographies of High-Speed Rail
- 11:40 am (hybrid): Transportation Geography Specialty Group Business Meeting
- 2:30 pm (hybrid): Fleming Lecture: Dr. Antonio Páez (McMaster University) - Not just transportation: Just transportation
- Friday, March 28, 2025
- 8:30 am: Digital Twins: A new paradigm of digital transformation to fill the last gap of making your research count
- 4:10 pm: Advancing Transport Research in Asia
- 4:10 pm (virtual): Commuting, Accessibility, and Vulnerable Populations
TGSG Officers 2025 - 2026
Inha University
Chair (2025 - 2027)
McMaster University
Vice Chair (2025 - 2027)
University of South Carolina
Board Member (2024 - 2026)
University of Kansas
Board Member (2024 - 2026)
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Board Member (2025 - 2027)
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Board Member (2025 - 2027)
University of California, Berkeley
Student Board Member (2025 - 2027)
University of Nevada, Reno
Student Board Member (2025 - 2027)
University of Illinois
Communications (ex officio)
The Journal of Transport Geography
The Journal of Transport Geography is a leading interdisciplinary journal focusing on the geographical dimensions of transport, travel and mobility. It is international in its outlook, and welcomes both conceptual papers and theoretically-informed, empirically-oriented contributions on the movement of people, goods and/or information by any mode and at every geographical scale.
Articles and viewpoints for the Journal of Transport Geography may be submitted through the Elsevier Website.
TGSG By-Laws
The TGSG approved these revised by-laws at the TGSG business meeting on Sunday 2/27/22 at 12:50 pm (EST).
Past Meetings and Award Winners
- 2024 AAG Annual Meeting: Honolulu, HI
- 2023 AAG Annual Meeting: Denver, CO
- 2022 AAG Virtual Annual Meeting
- 2021 AAG Virtual Annual Meeting
- 2020 AAG Virtual Annual Meeting
- 2019 AAG Annual Meeting: Washington, DC
- 2018 AAG Annual Meeting: New Orleans, LA
- 2017 AAG Annual Meeting: Boston, MA
- 2015 AAG Annual Meeting: Los Angeles, CA
- Edward L. Ullman Award Winners
- The Fleming Lectures in Transportation Geography
- Past Dissertation and Thesis Award Winners
- Past Chairs
- Annual Reports