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 2024

Sessons

All times are in Hawaii Standard Time.

• Tuesday, 4/16/2024
• 7:20 am (hybrid): Emerging vehicle technologies and services: Geographies of diffusion
• 9:00 am: Active transportation and resilient cities
• 10:40 am: Measuring motorized urban access
• 1:20 pm: Operationalising access and access-related outcomes
• 2:00 pm: (Workshop): Using accessibility measures: with and without constraints and competition
• 3:00 pm (virtual): Emergent transportation technologies and methodologies
• Wednesday, 4/17/2024
• 7:20 am (hybrid): Symposium on geospatial approaches to pressing grand challenges: Global pandemics, climate change, and food security – GIS, road and accessibility
• Thursday, 4/18/2024
• 7:20 am (hybrid): Transportation Justice 1: Infrastructure and active mobility policies
• 9:00 am (hybrid): Transportation Justice 2: Theory and methods within mobility justice
• 9:00 am: Symposium on human dynamics research: Human dynamics research in action
• 10:40 am (hybrid): Transportation Justice 3: Applications and case studies of mobility justice
• 1:20 pm (hybrid): Transportation Justice 4: Spatial and temporal approaches considering transit
• 3:00 pm (hybrid): Transportation Justice 5: Exploring the dimensions of transit users
• Friday, 4/19/2024
• 7:20 am (hybrid): Understanding weather and climate impacts on surface transportation
• 12:10 pm (hybrid): Transportation Geography Specialty Group business meeting
• 1:20 pm (hybrid): GeoAI and deep learning symposium: Emerging geo-big data applications in human mobility analysis I: Transport & social challenges
• 3:00 pm (hybrid): Fleming Lecture: Dr. Mark Horner: Bridging Theory and Practice in Transport Geography: Retrospective and Prospective
• Saturday, 4/20/2024
• 7:20 am: Geography of mobility transition I: Policy transition
• 9:00 am: Geography of mobility transition II: Industrial transition
• 10:40 am: Geography of mobility transition III: Inclusive transition

2024 TGSG Award Winners

• Edward L. Ullman Award: Antonio Páez is Professor at the School of Earth, Environment and Society at McMaster University, where he has been a teacher and researcher since 2002. Prof. Páez has dedicated his career to the analysis of transport and mobility issues: accessibility, equity and justice in transport, travel patterns, and daily activity to life choices. He is interested in the built and social environments as they affect travel behavior and health, as well as in identifying spatial patterns of residential choices, clustering of medical conditions, businesses and land uses, or social networks. In 2008 he led a team of researchers in a project that examined social exclusion and transportation in Canadian communities. This research was recognized with 2010 AAG Meredith F. Burrill Award which acknowledges excellent research at the interface of geography and policy. A very active scholar, Prof. Páez is author or co-author of more than 150 publications in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, has co-edited three books on spatial analysis, health, and transportation, and recently he is the co-author of Discrete Choice Analysis with R, published in Springer's flagship series UseR! According to the science-wide standardized citation indicators, Prof. Páez is in the top 2% of most cited researchers world-wide, and is among the most cited researchers in the field of transportation. Prof. Páez has been supported at various stages of his career by every federal research council in Canada: the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research. He has also travelled widely and has been invited to lecture and teach in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Chile, China, Germany, Greece, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He has been a member in more than 10 editorial boards and has been co-Editor-in-Chief since 2008 of Journal of Geographical Systems.
• Ph.D. Dissertation Award: Luyu Liu, University of Florida, "Accessibility in Motion: Measuring Real-time Accessibility with High-resolution Data" (supervised by Harvey Miller, The Ohio State University)
• Master's Thesis Award: Joshua Philip Suarez, National Taiwan University, "Transit-based Job Accessibility and Sociospatial Inequities among Immigrants: A Multi-scale Empirical Investigation in Taichung, Taiwan" (supervised by S.K. Jason Chang and Jen-Jia Lin, National Taiwan University)
• Student Travel Awards: Oforiwaa Pee Agyei-Boakye, University of Minnesota and Xiaohuan Zeng, University of Minnesota

Past meetings...

TGSG Officers 2024 - 2025

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).

2023-01-tgsg-by-laws.pdf

Past Meetings and Award Winners

• 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