@article{ref1,
title="Transportation geography and geographic thought in the United States: an overview",
journal="Journal of transport geography",
year="1994",
author="Taaffe, Edward J. and Gauthier, Howard L.",
volume="2",
number="3",
pages="155-168",
abstract="The development of transportation geography is considered in the context of three geographic traditions: ecology, area study and spatial organization. Beginning in the mid-1950s, there was an increase in spatial, quantitative and theoretical work. During the 1970s, a critique of this positivistic approach emerged. Since 1970, there has been a growth of pluralism with a complex intertwining of philosophical and definitional paradigms that have had an important impact on transportation studies. It is hoped that future emphasis will be on the specific-theory level of a paradigm, particularly the link between theory and empiricism as exemplified by: verification studies; GIS; mode l-context analysis; policy analysis; and regional studies.<p />",
language="",
issn="0966-6923",
doi="10.1016/0966-6923(94)90001-9",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0966-6923(94)90001-9"
}