ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the literature and range of geographic information system (GIS)-based applications in the modelling, planning and evaluation of transport systems. It looks at the fundamental elements of movement, and more specifically the reasons that trips are made and the networks that facilitate these movements. The chapter then draws this information together in the investigation of a range of GIS applications to control and manages the many facets of transport planning in the urban or regional environment. Transport networks are the channels that facilitate the flow of people and goods and can be represented within a GIS by points and vector lines. Accident research is a particularly interesting field to which GIS have been applied in relation to road networks. Many of the applications of GIS in relation to public transport networks come under two main topics – accessibility analysis and the planning of designing new routes.
