ABSTRACT
The study of movement is perhaps one of the most quintessentially geographical themes of modern times, yet within the discipline of geography, transport and mobility have, until recently, received relatively little attention in the annals of mainstream publications. Transport geography does now, without doubt, have a far higher prominence within the broader discipline. The story of transport geography, and its association with the new entrant of mobilities research, is therefore important to appreciate, because it helps us to position individual studies in both an epistemological and methodological framework. This chapter explores the major characteristics of transport geography and mobilities research. It provides the theoretical and methodological frameworks that researchers have used to examine key issues. The chapter concludes by highlighting what transport and mobility has to offer to geography as a discipline, which is an anchoring context for so many of the issues that are at the heart of geographical interest: the inter-relationships between space, place, time and scale.
