交通地理学作为人文地理学的重要分支,一直充满着活力与多样性,获得人文地理学者的广泛关注。本文基于CiteSpace可视化软件,采用Web of Science中收录1982-2014年的4840篇交通地理学论文作为原始数据,梳理了近30年的研究脉络,绘制了学科发展的知识图谱,系统地归纳了学科的研究热点与发展趋势,以期为中国交通地理学研究提供借鉴。研究发现:国外交通地理学研究方法和研究内容日趋多元化,研究视角趋向微观化,质性研究突显;初步形成城市规划学派、理论地理学派、时间地理学派等六大学术共同体;出现社会、行为、文化和流动的诸多转向,呈现出人本导向、信息导向和交叉化的发展趋势。

Transport geography, as an important branch of human geography, has been full of vitality and diversity and received wide attention from human geographers. Unfortunately, there has been no systematic review on emerging trends and critical turns of transport geography. CiteSpace is used to facilitate the analysis of the academic communities, research fronts, intellectual base and research hotspots in transport geography. The review comprises 4,840 articles published in international journals indexed by Thomson Reuters's Web of Science Database between 1982 and 2014. Two bibliometric approaches, co-occurrence analysis and co-citation analysis, are utilized. This paper sorts out the research context of transport geography over the past 33 years, draws the knowledge mapping of discipline development, systematically summarizes research hotspots and development trend of this discipline, in the hope of providing references for the transport geography of China. Specifically, the research scope range from deregulation and privatization to urbanization and globalization, to sustainable transportation and transportation technology reform. The intellectual base reflects the change of transport geography research trend, basically following positivism, behaviorism, new regionalism, postmodernism, social turn, cultural turn, mobility turn. This paper identifies eight hot research areas in foreign transport geography and reviews their progress in research, which includes accessibility, mobility, transport and regional development, urban transport geography, rail geography, air geography, port geography, logistics geography, transportation network, and transport policy and plan. In the end, based on the CiteSpace analysis results and the reference to the domestic research focus, the author discusses its future development trend.