ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the role that geographers and geography have played in furthering research on the links between health and transportation over the past half-century, noting important theoretical and methodological contributions. While the emphasis is primarily on the theoretical developments of geographers or research published in geography journals, researchers from other disciplines who have improved understandings of transportation and health geographies will also be included. The chapter reviews major theoretical and methodological contributions by identifying significant themes within the literature, and it concludes with a section that notes gaps and limitations where future research can drive transportation and health geographies forward. The chapter utilizes quantitative methodologies, thanks in part to the dominance of this methodological framework in cognate fields like transportation engineering and public health. This methodological bias has potentially left many questions about the links between transport and health unanswered, with researchers often relying on sometimes incomplete data to help generate and answer questions.
