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| KNOWLEDGE VISUALIZATION AND DYNAMICS OF FOREIGN TRANSPORT GEOGRAPHY RESEARCH |
| GUI Qin-chang1, LIU Cheng-liang1,2, DONG Lu-yao1, DUAN De-zhong1 |
1. School of Urban and Regional Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China;
2. Insititute for Innovation and Strategic Studies, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China |
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Abstract 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.
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Received: 08 September 2015
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2016, Vol. 31 
