The Prism of Everyday Life: Towards a New Research Agenda for Time Geography

2010/10/22 by Tijs Neutens, Tim Schwanen, Frank Witlox · 2 citations
Social Sciences · Engineering · #Urban Transport and Accessibility #Transportation Planning and Optimization #Urban and Freight Transport Logistics #Time geography #Field (mathematics) #Prism #Regional science #Human geography #Everyday life #State (computer science) #Geography #Sociology #Economic geography #Data science #Political science #Historical geography #Computer science #Development geography

paper · doi:10.1080/01441647.2010.484153

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Abstract

In light of the renewed attention for time geography in the transport modelling field in recent years, this paper provides a timely state‐of‐the‐art review of the contributions of the time‐geographic approach to the closely related research areas of transport planning and accessibility analysis. Specific attention will be devoted to the ways in which recent advances in time geography have deepened the understanding of human activities and travel possibilities in space and time. From this literature review, a detailed research agenda is derived and the latest research attempts to deal with lingering time‐geographic issues are discussed.

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